Director General of the SOCAR Energy Georgia told APA-Economics that occurrence of a technical break in gas supply to Georgia is normal, but no such problem have been observed recent days: “We are regularly stay in touch with David Tvalabeishvili. For the present, we are fully meeting Georgian demand for gas. No problem has occurred on gas supply to Georgia recent days. I can’t say what David Tvalabeishvili means”.
He noted that Georgia purchase blue oil via three pipelines today: “One of them belongs to SOCAR (capacity 6-6.5 bln cubic meters). The second is Shahdeniz which can transport 2.7-3 bcm. The third pipeline transports gas from Russia and all there pipeline transport gas normally and don’t break the balance”.
Earlier, the General Director of Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation David Tvalabeishvili said that SOCAR can’t provide gas to Georgia incessantly.
According to him, Georgian demand for gas increased recently: “Sometimes, limitations occur in natural gas provided by SOCAR. Therefore, we are to save balance through Russian gas”.