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"Enel is confirming that the disposal process for its assets in Romania has been temporarily suspended after reaching the target for debt reduction at the end of 2014," a company representative announced on Thursday.

The total demand of natural gas in January 2015 estimated by the national natural gas transporter Transgaz is rd 16.715 million MWh, according to proposal in the substantiation report drafted by the national operator of transport and transmission of gas system sent to the National Regulation Authority in Energy (ANRE).

President Traian Basescu called on the Government during a meeting of the Romanian Supreme Defence Council (CSAT) on Tuesday to find a strategy that it should also turn into law by which the transit of the natural gas to be drilled for in the Black Sea be made via Romanian gas transporter Transgaz, the Presidential Administration said in a press release.

In two years' time, 34% of Bulgaria's gas needs will be covered through local production, according to a forecast of state-owned gas transmission operator Bulgartransgaz.

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Russian gas supplies to Romania on Wednesday declined by 18 percent compared to the normal quantities, Minister-delegate for Energy Razvan Nicolescu told AGERPRES.

The gas interconnector pipeline between Romania and Bulgaria's towns of Giurgiu and Ruse, respectively, is expected to be completed by the end of this year, said on Tuesday the CEO of Bulgarian company Bulgartransgaz, Kiril Temelkov.

Gas supplies from the Russian Federation to Romania returned to normal this Saturday, but there was no confirmation yet from state-owned natural gas monopoly Gazprom that Romania would next week receive the entire amount of gas imports, Minister-delegate for Energy Razvan Nicolescu told AGERPRES.

Gas supplies from the Russian Federation to Romania were cut by 5 percent this Friday from the planned amount, with the Russian side offering no motivation, Minister-delegate for Energy Razvan Nicolescu told AGERPRES.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Tuesday, on the Tuzla Airdrome, after having visited the Ocean Endeavour rig whereby ExxonMobil and Petrom are carrying out gas exploration drills in the Romanian Black Sea deepwater, that "in three to four years" Romania and Moldova must be as little as possible dependent on gas imports.