Tbilisi Gas Company in Talks with Iran over Supplies

KazTransGaz-Tbilisi, a gas distributor company in the capital, is negotiating with Iran, along with Russia and Azerbaijan, about gas supplies for next year, company executives said on August 14.

Giorgi Koiava, General-Director of KazTransGaz-Tbilisi, a company owned by the Kazakh state-run KazTransGaz, said at a news conference, that the high price of Russian gas had prompted the need to seek alternative suppliers.

Russia increased the price from USD 110 to USD 235 per 1,000 cubic meters of gas at the beginning of 2007.

Daniar Berlibaev, Chief Executive of KazTransGaz?s subsidiary, Intergas Central Asia (a gas pipeline operator), said at a news conference in Tbilisi that searching for alternative sources of supply didn’t mean saying no to Russian gas.

?We are holding talks with Russia as well and we will continue these talks,? he said. ?Having several suppliers means the stable operation of our system. That?s why we are ruling out neither Russia nor Azerbaijan nor Iran.?

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