Gazprom Says Deal Signed on Gas Supplies to Georgia
Gazprom signed contracts with three companies in Georgia for the supply of a total of 1,1 billion cubic meters of gas in 2007 for USD 235 per 1000 cubic meters, Alexander Medvedev, chief of the Russian monopoly?s export arm Gazexport, said in Moscow on December 22.
He said that contracts were signed for one year terms with two companies and for a three-month term with KazTransGaz-Tbilisi, a company distributing gas in the Georgian capital, RIA Novosti news agency reported.
Two other companies are Saqcementi, a cement producing factory which needs about 250 million cubic meters annually and Russian-owned electricity grid Telasi, which needs about 300 million cubic meters of gas annually for its power generator plant number 9 in Gardabani.
The management of these companies was not immediately available for comment. The Georgian authorities have also not yet commented on the report.
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