PM: 70% of Georgia Gas to Come from Shah-Deniz

Georgia is expected to receive about 70% of its gas needs from Azerbaijan?s Shah-Deniz field in 2007, Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli said at a news conference after the government session on December 22.

He also said that Georgia plans to import gas from Russia as well.

But PM Nogaideli said the precise terms and balance of Georgia?s gas imports for the next year will become known only after his talks with Azerbaijani officials next week. PM Nogaideli plans to travel to Baku on December 25.

?Azerbaijan will be Georgia?s major gas supplier in 2007; all the legal and technical issues in this respect are already solved? currently, Energy Minister Nika Gilauri is about to end talks over some of the technical details in Turkey,? PM Nogaideli said.

?Georgia is continuing to import gas from Russia as well, and Georgia continues to serve as a transit country for transporting Russian gas into Armenia,? he added.

?On Monday [December 25] I will visit Azerbaijan to specify some of the final technical details [on gas delivery] and after that I will be able to provide you with precise numbers and terms under which we will have gas next year,? the Prime Minister said.

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