At its regular session Thursday, the Bulgarian government has gone a step further in outlining the route of the Bourgas-Vlore oil pipeline with a decision that it crosses the Bulgarian-Macedonian border off Giueshevo border checkpoint, the press office of the government reported Thursday.

The trans-Balkan pipeline is part of the pan-European transport-energy corridor 8, a system the EU has granted priority during the past year.
AMBO, the company tipped as operator of the oil pipeline project, is yet to agree on the starting point of the pipeline. The preferred option for the time being is a small port near the southern resort of Pomorie.

On a related note, work on the other oil pipeline project, to interconnect the port of Bourgas with the Greek port of Alexandroupolis, has reached a stalemate, sources close to the matter told mediapool.bg.

After the last end-August meeting in the Athens, the parties to the project – Bulgaria, Greece and Russia, agreed in principle to meet in the middle of September. However, no meeting has been scheduled to date.