Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.
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Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials.
Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
I will work for Bulgaria's strategic choice - Bulgaria's membership in the European Union and NATO. I think it is also extremely important to revive Bulgaria's relations with Russia, Ukraine and other strategic partners.
Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market.
We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area of foreign policy, and our efforts to attain fully our strategic goals will be mostly contingent upon the way we address our domestic priorities.
The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally.
Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.
There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.
The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'
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