Bulgaria tenders gas distribution licence for ski resort Bansko
Bulgaria's power regulator has launched a competitive procedure for the award of a gas distribution licence for the territory of ski resort Bansko.
The submitted bids will be unsealed on February 19, 2007.
The recipient of the permit will be required to install the gas distribution network at least partially by the 10th year of the permit's entry into force.
The regulator was forced to resort to a competitive procedure after 2 companies - Lexington and Pirin Power, said they were interested in the Bansko permit.
Tamplier, 50%-owned by former deputy energy minister Ilko Yotsev, controls 70% of Lexington.
Enemona, the local power engineering company, owns 50% of Pirin Power.
Overgas, the local gas supplier co-owned by Russia's Gazprom, also said it will buy the tender papers for the Bansko permit.
The power regulator plans to award the gas distribution permits for Nesebar and Ravda by the end of 2006.
The bid submission deadline for the Sliven gas permit expires next Tuesday. The offers will be unsealed on October 3.
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