The visiting minister of foreign trade of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Mr Herit Ibema, opened a propane filling facility of the Royal Dutch Shell affiliate in Bulgaria, the Shell Gas Bulgaria AD. The facility, with a network of 500 sites and an annual capacity of 20,000 tons is located in the village of Benkovski. We plan to add some 100 distributors to our network by this year's end, said country director Armand Lumens. In the next months Shell will invest another USD 500,000 in expanding its warehouses at the filling facility. Shell Gas Bulgaria plans to become Number One on the gas market in Bulgaria in the next 3 year. The company starts building a network of gas filling station