0,4% gas deficit for CJSC Azerigas in May

SOCAR has told APA that the volume of residue gas submitted to Azerigas that time was 429,9 million cubic meters instead of 402,5 million cubic meters, that means 6,8% over-prognosis. SOCAR shared 281,94 million cubic meters (+2,9%), Oil-and-Gas Production Units shared 278,25 million cubic meters (+7,1%), joint-ventures and operation companies did 3,69 million cubic meters, Anshad Petrol own sales did 1,82 million cubic meters (-17,6%) and AIOC shared 254,79 million cubic meters in the structure of submitted gas.

Azerbaijan Gas Refinement Joint-Venture (JV) was submitted 4,37 million cubic meters gas instead of forecasted 6,37 million cubic meters (68,6% of commitment) in report month. 3,29 million cubic meters (-36,9%) of that was from SOCAR and 1,08 million cubic meters (-6,9%) from AIOC.

The volume of gas submitted to CJSC Azerigas was 2488,26 million (+0,5%) while the volume of residue gas was 1853,3 million cubic meters (+2,8%) in January-May, 2006. The volume of gas submitted to Azerbaijan Gas Refinement Joint-Venture (JV) was 23,33 million cubic meters (-24%) that time.

In January-May, 2005 Azerigas received 1733,4 million cubic meters gas and 1116,2 million cubic meters residue gas capacity. Azerbaijan Gas Refinement Joint-Venture (JV) received 25,2 million cubic meters gas capacity.

It is expected that Azerigas will submit 6521,8 million cubic meters total gas in 2006. Azerbaijan Gas Refinement Joint-Venture (JV) will submit 74,6 million cubic meters gas.