Georgia completes construction of major gas pipeline

USAID Deputy Administrator Donald Steinberg will visit Poti (Western Georgia) on May 12 to become familiarized with the construction of the East-West gas pipeline funded by the U.S. government.

Steinberg will participate in a symbolic ceremony to mark the completion of the pipeline’s construction and a gas supply to the Poti free industrial zone, the U.S. Embassy said.

The project cost of $115 million is funded by USAID under U.S. assistance, provided to Georgia after the Georgian-Ossetian conflict of 2008.

The gas pipeline will link the Senaki district with the Poti free industrial zone. As a result, the gas project will be supplied to Poti and Senaki, Hobie and Samegrelo.


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