SOCAR put into operation new gas pipelines in Georgia
Yesterday new gas pipelines were opened in Marneuli and Dmanisi regions of Georgia. SOCAR Georgia Gas company has completed construction of new gas pipelines in Gachagan district in Marneuli and Gamarli district of Dmanisi regions.
SOCAR’s press office reported that SOCAR’s President Rovnag Abdullayev, vice president Suleyman Gasymov and Badal Badalov, Georgian Energy Minister Kakha Kaladze and SOCAR Energy Georgia General Director Mahid Mammadov have taken part at the opening ceremony.
Before the opening ceremony Rovnag Abdullayev has visited the Heydar Aliyev education centre in Dmanisi and presented the centre with Hyundai Country bus.
41.4-km-long gas pipeline laid in Gachagan district of Marneuli region will allow connecting 1100 customers to the gas network. The gas pipeline in Gamarli district of Dmanisi region, which is 12.6 km long, will allow supplying 280 customers with natural gas.
The same source reported that 647-km-long gas network was put into operation in Kvemo Kartli region, which is populated with Azerbaijan, to supply 20775 customers with gas. Until the end of the year it is planned to lay 180-km-long gas pipeline and connect 4928 more customers to the gas network.
From 2009 to 2013 SOCAR Georgia Gas company laid 3663 km of gas pipelines in Georgia and supplied with gas 184,906 customers.
SOCAR Georgia Gas, which is a part of SOCAR Energy Georgia, was established in 2007. The company repairs old and lays new gas pipelines in various regions of Georgia on the basis of the contract signed with the Georgian Ministry of Economic Development.—0—
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