Vehicle registration plates of Bulgaria compatible with both the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets came into force: Vehicle registration plates of Bulgaria Standard Bulgarian vehicle registration plates display black glyphs (alphanumeric characters) on a white background, together with – on the left-hand side of the plate – a blue vertical "EU strip" showing the flag of Europe (or, for older-registered cars, the flag of Bulgaria) and, below it, the country code for Bulgaria: BG. The characters displayed in the main field of the plate are: The format is thus XX NNNN YY, where XX (or X) is the province code, NNNN is the serial number, and
BG Group produced around 680,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. It had a major Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) business and was the largest supplier of LNG to the United States. As at 31 December 2009 it had total proven commercial reserves of of oil equivalent. The company was created in 1997 when British Gas plc divested Centrica and became BG plc, which was reorganised in 1999 as BG Group plc. On 23 October 2000, a further demerger separated the company into Lattice Group and BG Group. Lattice took ownership of "Transco" (the gas transporter for the UK), Advantica (gas engineering and