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    PIPELINE ACCIDENT HALVES RUSSIAN GAS SUPPLIES TO ARMENIA

    ITAR-TASS, Russia
    Dec 19 2006

    TBILISI, December 19 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian gas supplies to Armenia
    have halved because of a landslide that damaged a 1,200-millimeter
    trunk pipeline in Georgia.

    "The reduced deliveries have not affected people, industrial
    enterprises and heating plants, as the deficit is being compensated
    from a Yerevan underground storage facility," said Shushan Sardarian
    from the Russian-Armenian joint venture ArmRosGazprom.

    The landslide occurred in the highland Dusheti district of northeastern
    Georgia. The pipeline will be repaired in several days, a source at the
    Georgian International Petroleum Corporation told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

    The accident happened on December 18, and the deliveries are being
    made through the spare 700-millimeter pipeline.

    "The spare pipeline has a smaller capacity than the damaged
    1,200-millimeter pipe, so the deliveries to a number of Georgian
    areas and Armenia have reduced," the source said.
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