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## KAZAKHSTAN/GEORGIA/OMAN/ROMANIA/BULGARIA - Bulgarian energy minister discusses "wider access" of Kazakh gas, oil to Europe

Released on 2012-08-19 00:00 GMT

Email-ID | 715832
Date | 2011-10-04 18:52:05
From | nobody@stratfor.com
To | translations@stratfor.com
List-Name | translations@stratfor.com

Bulgarian energy minister discusses "wider access" of Kazakh gas, oil to
Europe
Text of report in English by Bulgarian national news agency BTA
Astana/Sofia, October 4 (BTA) - Kazakhstan is keeping an eye on the
opportunities for increasing the supply and transit of Kazakh oil to/via
Bulgaria and the European Union, Kairgeldy Kabyldin, president of
Kazakhstan's oil and gas company KazMunayGas, said on Tuesday [ 4
October]. He met with Bulgarian Economy, Energy and Tourism Minister
Traycho Traykov during the latter's official visit to Astana, Traikov's
ministry reported.
KazMunayGas is present on the Bulgarian market through the Rompetrol
network of filling stations which sell fuel from the company's
refineries in Romania.
Traykov and Kabyldin discussed possibilities for Europe to have wider
access to Kazakh oil and gas. Seventy per cent of the Central Asian
country's oil exports go to Europe. In its development programme for the
period until 2020, the country envisages an expansion of its gas markets
mainly through the Black Sea basin. One way to achieve that is to start
transporting compressed gas from the Caspian Sea via the Azeri capital
Baku and the Georgian Black Sea port of Batumi.
"To Bulgaria, gas supplies via the Black Sea offer an important
opportunity to diversify gas sources and routes," Traykov said.
According to him, Bulgaria counts on imports from the KazMunayGas
refineries in Romania to sustain competition on its domestic market. "If
there is a serious investor who has an interest in building a new
refinery in Bulgaria, the government will support him with concrete
action," he said.
Earlier in the day, Traykov met with Kazakhstan's Energy and Mineral
Resources Minister Sauat Mynbayev to discuss Astana's plans to develop
port infrastructure and shipbuilding, including the building of oil
tankers and ships carrying compressed gas. Kazakhstan is planning to
build a ship repair plant on the Caspian Sea. "Bulgarian companies can
be very useful with their expertise and can share in joint projects in
Kazakhstan," Traykov said.
Kazakhstan has some of the richest oil and gas reserves among the
countries of the Caspian region, amounting, respectively, to 5,500
billion tonnes and 3.3 trillion cubic metres. Currently, the country
extracts 1.6 million barrels of oil daily, 22 per cent of it through the
operations of KazMunayGas, and 38 billion cubic metres of gas annually.
Using the CTC pipeline, which transports oil to the Black Sea, the
country exports 28 million tonnes of oil annually in a westward
direction and plans to double that amount in the following decade.
In 2010, natural gas accounted for 73 per cent of imports from
Kazakhstan to Bulgaria, worth some 50 million US dollars.
Source: BTA news agency, Sofia, in English 1220 gmt 4 Oct 11
BBC Mon EU1 EuroPol CAU 041011 sa/osc
(c) Copyright British Broadcasting Corporation 2011