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DAMAGED SECTION OF GAS PIPELINE IN GORGIA IS RESTORED, PRESIDENT OF GEORGIAN OIL AND GAS CORPORATION STATES
Noyan Tapan
Dec 20 2006
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN. The damaged section of the gas
pipeline, through which Russian gas is supplied to Armenia through
the territory of Georgia, has been restored. Alexander Khetaguri,
President of the Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation, stated this on
December 20. In his words, the restored section is being tested,
and the gas supply to Armenian consumers will resume soon. However,
responding to NT's inquiry, the spokeswoman for ArmRusgazprom CJSC
Shushan Sardarian neither confirmed nor denied this information,
explaining this by the absence of contact between company experts
and their Georgian colleagues. To recap, the gas pipeline in Georgia
was damaged in the morning of December 18 because of an avalanche at
the Ananuri-Dusheti section, as a result of which the 1.2 thousand
mm-diameter pipe was damaged. After this, about one third of the needed
gas is being supplied to Armenia through a reserve gas pipeline. The
official representative of Gazprom Sergei Kuprianov on December 19
stated that if repair work of the gas pipeline is protracted, Armenia's
underground gas depots may remain without gas reserves this winter.
Noyan Tapan
Dec 20 2006
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN. The damaged section of the gas
pipeline, through which Russian gas is supplied to Armenia through
the territory of Georgia, has been restored. Alexander Khetaguri,
President of the Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation, stated this on
December 20. In his words, the restored section is being tested,
and the gas supply to Armenian consumers will resume soon. However,
responding to NT's inquiry, the spokeswoman for ArmRusgazprom CJSC
Shushan Sardarian neither confirmed nor denied this information,
explaining this by the absence of contact between company experts
and their Georgian colleagues. To recap, the gas pipeline in Georgia
was damaged in the morning of December 18 because of an avalanche at
the Ananuri-Dusheti section, as a result of which the 1.2 thousand
mm-diameter pipe was damaged. After this, about one third of the needed
gas is being supplied to Armenia through a reserve gas pipeline. The
official representative of Gazprom Sergei Kuprianov on December 19
stated that if repair work of the gas pipeline is protracted, Armenia's
underground gas depots may remain without gas reserves this winter.