Gas supply to Armenia halted as landslide damages pipe

armradio.am
10.03.2012 14:05

Damage of the major gas pipeline in Georgia on the night of March 9
caused suspension of Russian gas supply to Armenia.

Georgian Minister for Energy and Natural Resources Alexander Khetaguri
told journalists that the pipeline junction was damaged by a landslide
at 114th km of the major gas pipeline. Khetaguri and the general
director of Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation Zurab Janjgava arrived on
the spot.

`Corporation staff is already working, and the damage will be repaired
by March 13,’ the Minister said.