SOCAR ups gas supply to Georgia
Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR transported over 4 million cubic meters of gas per day to Georgia As of November 6, against 1.4 million cubic meters, as of October 19, SOCAR source told Trend news agency on Tuesday.
SOCAR supplies gas to Georgia in the framework of activities in Georgian market through the pipeline, connecting the two countries in Gazakh region of Azerbaijan. The transportation capacity through this pipeline amounts to 3 billion cubic meters per year.
According to the source, the gas supply to Iran, carried out within swap operations, is in process.
Within the gas provision of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, 1.2 million cubic meters of gas are supplied to Iran daily.
Azerbaijan and Iran are connected by Gazi Magomed Astara Bind Biand pipeline with the length of 1474.5 kilometers, including 296.5 kilometers on the territory of Azerbaijan. This route is a branch of Gazakh-Astara-Iran pipeline, commissioned in 1971.