Supplies to Russia in August were 62,743,000 cubic meters. Thus, the average daily gas supplies to Russia made up 2,211,000 cubic meters in January-August.
Azerbaijan started gas export to Russia on 1 January 2010.
Earlier it was planned that in 2010 Russia will receive 500m cubic meters of gas but this volume was further raised two times.
The agreement on supplies of Azerbaijani gas to Russia was signed during the visit of the Russian delegation headed by Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev to Baku on 29 June 2009. The document fixing main provisions of purchase of the Azerbaijani natural gas was signed by Gazprom president Alexey Miller and SOCAR president Rovnag Abdullayev by results of the negotiations between Russian and Azerbaijani Presidents Dmitriy Medvedev and Ilham Aliyev.
Rufat Abbasov
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