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    Published : 2023-12-31
    Vol. 16 No. 2 (2023)

    In Times of Pandemic and War: Security of Natural Gas Supplies to Consumers in Romania and Bulgaria (January 2020 – August 2023)

    Tomasz Skrzyński

    https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-4396

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.56583/fs.2391

    Abstract

    Until April 2022, by far the largest external supplier of gas to Bulgaria and Romania was Russia. For Bulgaria, Russian gas was of primary importance; for Romania, it supplemented its own production. In this article, the extent to which the pandemic, the energy crisis, and the armed conflict affected the availability of gas for Bulgarian and Romanian customers was compared. In 2020, in Bulgaria and Romania, the security of gas supplies to consumers was compromised by, among other things, an increase in gas consumption, a further decline in gas production in both countries, and declining transit through their territories. The expansion of their infrastructure after April 2022 accelerated the implementation of measures planned before 2020. Bulgaria focused on diversifying its supplies through Greece and Turkey. Romania, among other actions, continued its efforts to build infrastructure enabling it to exploit gas resources from fields under the Black Sea bed.

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    energy security, natural gas, Romania’s energy security, Bulgaria’s energy security, gas infrastructure



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    Skrzyński, T. (2023). In Times of Pandemic and War: Security of Natural Gas Supplies to Consumers in Romania and Bulgaria (January 2020 – August 2023). Facta Simonidis, 16(2), 341–361. https://doi.org/10.56583/fs.2391

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