据管道新闻网10月23日消息称，保加利亚国家天然气公司周三表示，该公司已获得2亿欧元(2.22亿美元)短期贷款，帮助为土耳其溪天然气管道项目在保加利亚的扩建提供资金。
保加利亚天然气公司必须向由沙特领导的Arkad集团支付预付款，该集团以11亿欧元的价格承建了474公里（300英里）的“巴尔干之流”的输气管道，还必须向保加利亚一个国有公司支付预付款，该集团将为这条输气管道安装两个压缩站。
它表示，有9家银行已提交了提供资金的文件，并提供与花旗欧洲银行、荷兰国际集团、意大利联合信贷银行保加利亚分行以及总部位于莫斯科的国际经济合作银行签署和合同。
该公司最初申请了高达1.5亿欧元的贷款。
该公司在一份声明中表示：“成功的程序确保了保加利亚天然气公司从银行获得的信贷总额达到2亿欧元，并以美元的现金存款作了六个月的抵押，并有可能再抵押六个月。”
该公司表示，这些贷款还将产生超过100万欧元的利息，因为美元利率明显高于欧元利率。
这条计划中的474公里（300英里）管道将把俄罗斯天然气从保加利亚南部与土耳其的边境输送到西部与塞尔维亚的边境，从而为俄罗斯支持的通往塞尔维亚、匈牙利和奥地利的TurkStream双管道提供连接。
曹海斌 摘译自 管道新闻网
原文如下：
Bulgartransgaz Raises 200 Million Euros for TurkStream
Bulgarian state gas firm Bulgartransgaz has raised 200 million euros ($222 million) in short-term loans to help finance the Bulgarian extension of the TurkStream gas pipeline project, it said on Wednesday.
Bulgartransgaz has to make advance payments to the Saudi-led group Arkad it contracted to build the 474 km (300 mile) pipeline dubbed Balkan Stream for 1.1 billion euros and to a Bulgarian-led group that will install two compressor stations for the gas link.
It said nine banks had filed documents to provide funds and contracts signed with Citibank Europe, ING, Unicredit’s Bulgarian unit and the Moscow-based International Bank for Economic Co-operation.
The company initially sought loans of up to 150 million euros.
“The successful procedure ensured credits to Bulgartransgaz from banks totaling to 200 million euros, collateralized with cash deposits in U.S. dollars for six months, with a possibility for another six,” the company said in a statement.
The gas company said the loans will also generate a positive effect of over 1 million euros in interest as dollar rates were significantly higher than euro rates.
The planned 474 km (300 mile) pipeline will carry Russian gas from Bulgaria’s southern border with Turkey to its western frontier with Serbia, providing a link to the Russia-backed TurkStream twin pipeline to Serbia, Hungary and Austria.
