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Azerbaijan's state energy giant SOCAR has started to provide free gas to buildings belonging to the religious bodies in Georgia.

In particular, more than 200 churches, monasteries, mosques and synagogues across Georgia will receive free gas during a year . For the realisation of this charity event, SOCAR will spend more than a million lari.

Before the start of the event, Patriarch of Georgia Ilia II and SOCAR head Rovgan Abdullayev signed a memorandum of understanding. The ceremony was attended by the Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia Kakha Kaladze.

Patriarch blessed the multilateral charitable activity and large scale social projects carried out by SOCAR.

SOCAR is involved in exploring oil and gas fields, producing, processing, and transporting oil, gas, and gas condensate, marketing petroleum and petrochemical products in the domestic and international markets, and supplying natural gas to industry and the public in Azerbaijan.

The company, which is keen on expanding operations in the retail oil products market abroad, owns gas stations in Azerbaijan, Switzerland, Georgia and Ukraine. It has representative offices in Georgia, Turkey, Romania, Austria, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Britain, Iran, Germany and Ukraine, and trading companies in Switzerland, Singapore, Vietnam, Nigeria, and other countries.