Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec. 23 / Trend E.Ismayilov /
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) exports 1.4 million cubic meters of gas to Georgia per day, a source in the oil and gas market said on Thursday.
Georgia is also supplied 1.8 million cubic meters of gas per day from the Shah Deniz gas field in Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea.
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) exported 300.43 million cubic meters of gas to Georgia in January-November compared to 278.46 million in January-October, SOCAR said.
In November SOCAR exported about 22 million cubic meters of Azerbaijani gas in November compared to about 31.12 million cubic meters in October
SOCAR supplies its own gas to Georgia via a pipeline linking the two countries in the Gazakh district of Azerbaijan as part of its activity on the Georgian market. Power flow of gas through this pipeline is 3 billion cubic meters of gas a year.
Azerbaijan and Georgia signed an agreement in November 2008 to create the possibility of intensifying SOCAR's activity on the Georgian gas market over the five years after 2009. According to the memorandum, SOCAR created the subsidiary SOCAR Georgia Gas to realize the project. It provides some groups consumer gas (social groups) determined by the Georgian government.
SOCAR and the Georgian government signed an agreement to transfer 30 gas distribution networks covering different regions in Georgia in late December 2008.