Azerbaijan hikes up gas exports to Georgia
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Azerbaijan is increasing the amount of natural gas it supplies to Georgia almost two-fold.
Georgia will receive an additional 500 million cubic meters of natural gas from Azerbaijan, Georgia's main gas supplier, bringing the amount it receives to 1.3 billion cubic metres (m3) per year.
The extra gas will help Georgia fill its gas deficit during winter.
This decision was announced by president of Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR Rovnag Abdullayev after the second meeting of the Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council in Baku on Monday, February 29, reported Azerbaijani news agency Trend.
Previously, we supplied 800 million cubic meters of gas to Georgia from the Shah Deniz gas field annually. We have managed to increase the supply through that route to 1.5 billion cubic meters, also raising the exported gas volumes to 1.5 billion cubic meters via a pipeline connecting the two countries in Azerbaijan’s Gazakh district,” Abdullayev said.
He added there was an opportunity to transfer an extra 500 million m3 of gas from the Shah Deniz gas field.
We will use some of the Shah Deniz gas in Azerbaijan and export the other part to Georgia and Turkey. Before we did not have the technical opportunities to increase our gas supply to Georgia,” Abdullayev said.
Each year Georgia used 2.4 billion m3 of natural gas, stated Trend.
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