Gas supplies to Greece have been restored after the August 6 explosion of a pipeline in the region of Blagoevgrad in south-western Bulgaria.

Bulgartransgaz teams worked around the clock to repair the damage and normalise the flow of gas. The pipeline was fixed by early morning on August 9, Bulgargaz representatives said, as quoted by investor.bg. 

Bulgaria has transported nearly two billion cubic metres natural gas across its territory to Greece in the first seven months of 2007, Bulgargaz managing director Dimitar Gogov said.

He said that the quantity of fuel transfered to Greece was varied, and he could not say what is the exact quantity that the country failed to transport to Greece in these three days.

Bulgaria transported eight billion cu m of gas to Turkey in the period from January to July and nearly 45 million cu m to Macedonia in the same period.