SOCAR: 2.7 BCM Gas Injected to Gas Storage Facilities

The gas storage operation department of the Azneft Production Unit of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) has finished pumping gas into underground gas storage facilities Garadagh and Galmaz for the 2015-2016 Autumn/Winter season.

According to SOCAR'S press service, the process began in April 2015, in accordance with the current schedule.

A total of 1.8 bcm of gas was pumped to underground gas storage during the warm months of 2015, including 920 mcm in Garadagh and 887 mcm in Galmaz gas storage facilities.

The volume of gas in underground storage together with gas from last season in the balance amounted to 2.694 bcm.

"Gas reserves in warehouses give us ground to say that country's population will be provided with blue fuel without interruption by the end of the winter " - SOCAR informed.

The total capacity of mentioned gas storage facilities is about 5 bcm.