Galata was a big question for the near future

State Committee on Energy and Water Regulation (SEWRC) intends to refuse the Overgas AD issuance of license for storage of natural gas in gazohranilishte Galata becomes clear from the preliminary report of the Committee on the matter. Open meeting to discuss the application for license to Overgas was scheduled for today, but postponed at the last minute because of summer holidays to members of the governor, as saying there. The final decision will be taken after the open session, ie most probably in August.
The application to SEWRC license from Overgas indicate that gazohranilishteto in Galata is depleted as such, so it will be offered in the transformed gazohranilishte. According to the schedule of Overgas, this may be done within two years and the term of the license is 35 years, ie the maximum by law, in view of the large amount of input investment.
Overgas intentions are to build a place of deposit in the Galata gazohranilishte holding 1.2 billion cubic meters of gas that double greater than gazohranilishteto in Chiren.
Currently the concession for extraction of natural gas deposit in Galata has the company Melrouz risorsiz Ltd., as a party to the contract on behalf of the state is the Ministry of Economy and Energy (MEE). Concession contract that is for a period of 25 years, expires in 2026 This is the main motive of the working group SEWRC, examined the application of Overgas to recommend the Commission not to grant the request of the gas company.
When exhausted gas field concession contract could be terminated early, in order the deposit to be transformed into gazohranilishte. Already in January, during the gas crisis of MEE launched the idea of making the nohodishteto in gazohranilishte. Then Minister Petar Dimitrov said that must be addressed in the concession agreement Melrouz and possibly their request to build gazohranilishte.
Energy Act any company meeting the requirements may apply for a license for storage of natural gas in Galata, said the case Deputy Executive Director Overgas Svetoslav Ivanov. In his words, nowhere in the law is not specified that a company must carry out the extraction and storage of gas.
Furthermore concessions permits issued by MEE and licenses for gas storage – by SEWRC. In this regard, according to Ivanov, MEE should Melrouz to terminate the concession for extraction of gas as it is exhausted, and then wishes to obtain a license a company or companies (and possibly Melrouz) to apply on a general basis.
By Overgas added that their experts have already Galata only „buffer“ gas quantities and if Melrouz continues to draw, it will cause damage to the internal structure of the deposit and it can not be transformed into gazohranilishte.

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