Gazprom not to get money from Tbilisi

Gazprom hasn’t managed to agree with Georgia on the transition to cash payments for gas, supplied to the country. As a result, Tbilisi, as before, will receive 10% of transit gas coming to Armenia from Russia. Azerbaijan agreed to supply additional volumes for Georgia, although last year it faced with a deficit of produced gas. According to experts, Tbilisi can afford not to make concessions to Gazprom, while Baku has access to Russian gas supplies and due to them can increase exports to Georgia.

Georgia doesn’t need additional volumes of gas imports from Russia and Iran after signing the contract for the delivery of 500 million cubic meters from Azerbaijan, the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Energy of Georgia Kakha Kaladze said last week. "The gas supply of the country will be provided for several years," - the official said. On Friday, the Government of Georgia and the Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR signed a corresponding agreement. Thus, the supply of gas from Azerbaijan, taking into account the current contract, could rise to 1.5 billion cubic meters. Prior to that, SOCAR delivered about 800 million cubic meters of gas from the Shah-Deniz field. Georgia needed additional gas, as its consumption in the country increased by 40% since 2012, to about 2 billion cubic meters per year.