Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept.14
By Maksim Tsurkov - Trend:
Gas supplies to the methanol plant of Azerbaijan's AzMeCo company by Russia's Gazprom Export LLC will start Sept.20-21, President of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Rovnag Abdullayev told reporters Sept.14.
He said AzMeCo (Azerbaijan Methanol Company) will purchase up to 2 billion cubic meters of gas from Gazprom Export LLC per year.
The natural gas supply will ensure the guaranteed loading of 100 percent of facilities of AzMeCo methanol plant in Garadagh.
Earlier, Alexey Miller, head of Gazprom said that the company can supply several billion cubic meters of gas to Azerbaijan per year.
Currently, Gazprom has a contract on purchasing Azerbaijani gas. The contact was signed Oct.14, 2009 with the possibility of extension. The contract between SOCAR and Russia's Gazprom allows to suspend and resume gas supplies any time.
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