ARMRîSGASPROM: RUSSIAN GAS FLOW TO ARMENIA TO BE CEASED BECAUSE OF KAVKAZ-ZAKAVKAZIE PIPELINE REPAIR
ARKA News Agency
Aug 20 2007
Armenia
YEREVAN, August 20. /ARKA/. Russian gas flow to Armenia will be ceased
because of Kavkaz-Zakavkazie pipeline repair, Shushan Sardaryan,
press secretary of Armenian-Russian ArmRosgaspeom CJSC, said on Monday.
She told ARKA News Agency that the gas supply was ceased on Monday
and will be resumed in six days.
Armenian consumers will have their gas supply uninterrupted – they
will receive gas from Abovyan underground depot.
Sardaryan said that on Monday from 9:00 a.m. to 23:00 p.m., Yerevan’s
some districts and two villages in Kotayk will do without gas. But
cutoff here is due to the work on gas-conveying network enlargement,
not Russian gas supply.
"This is a mere coincidence, and is not caused by gas pipeline
breakdown", the press secretary said.
ArmRosgasprom CJSC enjoys monopoly on importing and distributing
Russian gas in Armenia.
Russian gas comes to Armenia through Georgia. The company was
established in 1997. Its capital totals $398.8mln.
The company’s shares belong to Russian Gasprom (57.59%), Armenian
Energy Ministry (34.7%) and Itera Oil and Gas Company (7.71%).
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