According to SOCAR’s decision, a maximum limit of free gas usage by the sites performing religious rituals and the objects of pilgrimage owned by all religious institutions operating in Azerbaijan is now fixed at 5,000 cub.m. a year.
In autumn 2013 Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev issued a decree to provide free gas to all mosques and temples operating in Azerbaijan and on December 30, 2013 SOCAR made a decision to supply free gas to the religious institutions from 2014.
"Only the religious organizations passed through the state registration will be supplied with free gas,” a source from Azerigas said.
Average annual volume of gas consumption by the above-mentioned organizations totaled 1953 cub.m.
“However, we have to establish a limit of 5,000 cub.m., because some organizations use more gas and others less. If the limit is exceeded, the organizations will have to pay a difference for the gas consumed above the limit,” a source from Azerigas said.—0—
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