Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 10
By Maksim Tsurkov - Trend:
The SOCAR company (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan) will increase the volume of gas pumping to Georgia in the winter, head of SOCAR Energy Georgia (a subsidiary of SOCAR in Georgia) Mahir Mammadov told Trend.
He said that the current pumping capacity of the pipeline to Georgia fully meets the needs of the country, and it is not planned to increase this capacity.
"This is not necessary," Mammadov said. "In accordance with the increase in consumption in the winter time, we raise the level of daily flow of gas. If now it is about 3.5-3.6 million cubic meters per day, in the winter time it ranges from 5- 6 million cubic meters. Also, Georgia receives gas from the Shah Deniz field via the South Caucasus pipeline in the amount of 2.6-2.7 million cubic meters per day. Therefore, the amount needed for Georgia is fully guaranteed."
SOCAR exported 2.15 billion cubic meters of gas to Georgia in 2014, which is by 248.1 million cubic meters (10.5 percent) more than in 2013.
SOCAR delivers its own gas to Georgia via a pipeline that runs through Azerbaijan's Gazakh district. The gas pumping capacity via this pipeline nears 3 billion cubic meters per year.
The State Oil Company manages gas distribution networks in Georgia's various regions through the SOCAR Georgia Gas.
Edited by CN
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