Production and deliveries of natural gas

National Statistical Institute

'Environmental and Energy Accounts' Department

Daniela Koleva - solid fuels

Antonia Parvanova - oil and petroleum products

Iveta Minkova - natural gas

Tsvetelina Veselinova - electricity

Chief expert

State expert

State expert

Chief expert

2, P.Volov Str., Sofia 1038, Bulgaria

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 590

+359 2 9857 589

+359 2 9857 191

+359 2 9857 476

Monthly data on production, imports (incl.entries) by country of origin, exports (incl. exits) by country of destination, marine bunkers (for petroleum products only), stock change and deliveries of the following energy products: solid fuels, oil and petroleum products, natural gas and electricity.

· Nomenclature of energy products as part of PRODPROM to 2007

· Nomenclature of energy products (PRODENERGY) since 01.01.2008

Economic activities, covered in data production are: Extraction of coal, oil and natural gas; Production of petroleum products; Production of BKB; Production of electricity; Transport via pipelines; Trade (imports/entries and exports/exits) of energy products.

Production, imports (incl. entries) by country of origin, exports (incl. exits) by country of destination, marine bunkers (for petroleum products only), stock change and deliveries of solid fuels, oil and petroleum products, natural gas and electricity.

Statistical unit observed is enterprise.

Enterprises that produce, import and/or export, bunker, store and deliver energy products; operators, performing licensed activities of natural gas transmission and storage.

For the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria.

Since January 2001.

Not applicable.

Solid fuels - thousand tons

Oil and petroleum products - thousand tons

Natural gas - million m3 at 15C and TJ (Gross calorific value)

Electricity - GWh, for the period 2001-2016 in thousand tons and TJ also

Calendar month.

· Law on Statistics

· Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 on energy statistics and its amendments (consolidated version): 

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:02008R1099-20200105&from=EN

The data are provided to Eurostat and the International Energy Agency.

· Law on Statistics;

· Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:087:0164:0173:EN:PDF

Individual data are not published in accordance with article 25 of the Law on Statistics. Publishing of individual data can be performed only in accordance with article 26 of the same law.

Statistical information on the production and deliveries of energy products are published 60 days after the reference month.

The calendar is available on the NSI website: https://old.nsi.bg/en/node/480

Statistical data are published on the NSI website, rubric 'Energy' in accordance with the Law on Statistics and the European Statistics Code of Practice respecting the professional independence and aimed at objectivity, transparency and equal treatment of all consumers.

Monthly

Regular monthly press releases.

Not applicable.

Detailed results are available to all users of the NSI website in section 'Environment and Energy', rubric 'Energy' - Production and deliveries of energy products: https://old.nsi.bg/en/node/5019, as wll as in Information system for online requests for statistical information 'INFOSTAT', section 'Environment and Energy', rubric 'Energy' - Production and deliveries of energy products: https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=133

Not applicable.

Information service upon request according to the Rules for dissemination of statistical products and services.

Annex B - Monthly energy statistics of the Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 on energy statistics and its ammendments.

Quality report for the data, prepared according to the requirements of the Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 on energy statistics - prepared on every 5 years.

The data are validated and corrected by the NSI in case of inaccuracies found.

Following the reporting of the data, Eurostat and the International Energy Agency carry out data validation procedure in which, if necessary, additional clarifications related to the reported data are sent, or corrections are made in case of inaccuracies.

Information is used for analytical, forecasting and management purposes by Ministries and other organizations, companies and citizens.

No consumer satisfaction survey was conducted.

Data completely cover the requirements of the Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 on energy statistics and its amendments in terms of the observed indicators and the range of energy products.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Data are published on the dates indicated in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the NSI.

Data are comparable with the data of the EU Member States for the whole observed period - from 2001.

Data are geographically comparable for the entire period for which they are available - from 2001.

Data are comparable in time for the entire period for which they are available - from 2001.

Data for the indicators Import (Entries), Exports (Exits) and Marine bunkering are consistent with the data of External Trade in Goods Statistics for the respective month, except in cases where methodological differences between the two areas exist.

Not applicable.

Costs related to the collection and production of statistical data are announced annually in the National Statistical Program.

No specific studies on the burden of the respondents.

No established official policy for data revision.

Revision is made in case of change of the used classifications, methodologies, or in case of detection of incorrect data - omissions or inaccuracies in the data submitted by the respondents.

Monthly

Data collection is carried out with a questionnaires in Excel format, sent by e-mail.

Questionnaires contain logical and arithmetical controls for preliminary control at the moment of the filling in the data by the respondents. Validation of the obtained data is performed in two stages: at regional level - in RSO and at national level - in NSI, and is expressed in comparison of data with the previous periods and other internal sources of information.

Aggregation of data at national level using Visual Basic.

Not applicable.

Up to 2019 data on production and imports of crude oil were confidential and were not published. From 2020 only the production is confidential.