OREANDA-NEWS. August 18, 2010.  This July, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) increased gas supplies to the domestic market by 14.4% against June 2010.

Since July 2009 SOCAR has been running national gas operator Azeriqaz CJSC (now it is SOCAR’s sub-company with the same name).

SOCAR reports that this July gas supplies to the domestic market reached 443.3 million cu m versus 387.5 million cu m in June, 462.9 million cu m in May, 597.1 million in April, 702.2 million cu m in March, 749 million cu m in February, 808.4 million cu m in January 2010 and 779.49 million cu m in December 2009. Maximum level of such supplies to the domestic market was registered in December 2008 (1.08 bn cu m).

“For Jan-Jun 2010 supplies to the domestic market totaled 4.148 bn cu m,” the company informed.

Supplies reached 8.89 bn cu m in 2009, versus 10.767 bn cu m in 2008.

For Jan-July 2010, as well as between August and September 2009, the former main gas consumer, Azeriqaz CJSC, did not receive gas, although in entire 2009 it was designed 3.1 bn cu m versus 5.8 bn cu m in 2008.

Energy operator Azerenerji OJSC received 316 million cu m of gas from SOCAR this July, 2.217 bn cu m in January to July 2010, 4.318 bn cu m in 2009 and 4.95 bn cu m in 2008.

The company’s gas supplies to the population reached 66.2 million cu m this July, 1.165 bn cu m for Jan-July 2010 and 849.14 million cu m in 2009.

SOCAR’s supplies to industrial sector this June totaled 49.4 million cu m, and over 7 months of 2010 – 557.1 million cu m against 421.06 million cu m in 2009 and to public utility & budget consumers 3.6 million cu m, 154.3 million cu m and 53.89 million cu m respectively. This July, energy agency of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan received 8.1 million cu m and 53.7 million cu m since early 2010.