Azerbaijan is ready to increase daily supply of gas to Georgia

The Azerbaijani state company SOCAR can deliver to Georgia in

addition 3 million cubic meters of gas a day, the first deputy head

of department of SOCAR of gas export Nazim Samedzade in a

lobby of the II international forum SOCAR "The Caspian Sea and

Central Asia — Trade, Logistics, Oil Processing and

Petrochemistry" told to journalists. 

"Now SOCAR every day delivers 7 million cubic meters of gas to

Georgia. In 2016 as a result of carrying out repair work on the gas

pipeline Hajikabul-Gazakh- Gardabani, it was succeeded to

increase daily handling capacity of the pipeline to 10 million cubic

meters of gas. Therefore, we have an opportunity to deliver to

Georgia in addition 3 million cubic meters of gas a day", - he

added. 

Besides, Azerbaijan every day receives 8 million cubic meters of

gas from Iran, Samedzade told. "To 7 million cubic meters from

this amount is delivered by the pipeline Hoi-Julfa, and 1 million

cubic meters is delivered by the Astara-Hajikabul pipeline", - he

noted. 

The proved inventories of natural gas of Azerbaijan are estimated

at 2,5 trillion cubic meters of gas. 

Production of commodity gas in Azerbaijan, according to

Goskomstat, in January-March constituted 4,79 billion cubic

meters that is 0,9 percent more than an indicator of the first

quarter 2016. 

Amounts of production of commodity gas in Azerbaijan in 2016

made 18,71 billion cubic meters against 19,72 billion cubic meters

extracted in 2015.