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Alexei Miller: â€œRussiaâ€™s Gazprom ready to buy all of Azerbaijanâ€™s gasâ€™

19 June 2010 19:55 (UTC +04:00)

APA reports quoting RIA Novosti that Miller told: "We are ready to buy as much [gas] as Azerbaijan is ready to deliver. We are ready to buy all of Azerbaijanâ€™s gas and buying gas from Azerbaijan was "beneficial".
Deliveries of Azerbaijani gas began on January 1 of this year after Azerbaijanâ€™s GNKAR signed a contract with Russiaâ€™s Gazprom in October of 2009 to deliver 500 million cubic meters of gas annually up to 2015, with the option of renewing the contract in the future.
Later the companies agreed to double gas deliveries to Russia, bringing the total amount of gas delivery from Azerbaijan to 1 billion cubic meters. The companies will again double that amount to 2 million cubic meters in 2011.
Azerbaijanâ€™s gas reaches Russia through its Baku-Novo-Filya gas pipeline along the Caspian Sea to the Russiaâ€™s North Caucasus republics.