The deficit in the natural gas, which is supplied to Georgia by Azerbaijan, will not be possible to fill in the current year. 

Deputy PM and Minister of Energy of Georgia, Kakha Kaladze, informed the aforesaid at the end of his talk with a representative of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR). 

In the minister’s words, work is underway regarding a new tariff plan for commercial consumers.

Kaladze stated that technical support is needed—with respective investments, to which the parties are ready—to increase the volume of Azerbaijani natural gas being supplied to Georgia, reported Gruzia Online news agency of Georgia.

As per the Georgian minister, this refers to a new project—in which SOCAR will partake—toward greater volumes of gas supply.