MINISTRY OF ECONOMY
AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
OF GEORGIA

“Gasification of Manglisi is a truly historic event - there has never been natural gas supply available here and within the framework of our Government’s gasification plan, exactly one year ago, despite the pandemic, we started gasification of this settlement. It was a difficult project, expensive, but really good work was done and now, about 1600 families receive natural gas,” – the Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, Natia Turnava stated during her visit to Manglisi, Tetritskaro Municipality, where she examined a newly built gas pipeline.

Shota Rekhviashvili, State Representative in Kvemo Kartli, Mikheil Shalamberidze, General Director of the Georgian Gas Transportation Company, Mayr Mammadov, General Director of SOCAR Energy Georgia, Azer Mammadov, Director of SOCAR Georgia Gas, as well as local government representatives accompanied the Minister during her visit to Manglisi.

Manglisi gasification project was implemented within the framework of the three-year gasification plan of the Government of Georgia. Large-scale works of inclusion in the unified gas distribution network of the resort settlement, on the basis of the Gasification Action Plan of the Government of Georgia for 2019-2021, were carried out by the Georgian Gas Transportation Company on the instructions of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development. As a result, 34 150 meters of feeding pipeline and 48 180 meters of gas pipeline had been provided. After the completion of large-scale works, 1 558 customers living in Manglisi were given the opportunity to use natural gas. The cost of the project was 11 163 418 GEL. 

Minister Turnava noted that gasification is the precondition for the further development of the tourist facilities and the construction of new hotels in Manglisi, which has long been known as a very good country-side, as well as a very suitable and attractive place for tourism development.

“Of course, it will be much easier to create new jobs now, because we have attracted more investment in this settlement, and therefore, I congratulate all the residents of Manglisi on the completion of this very important project,” – Natia Turnava commented.

Natia Turnava also visited the socially vulnerable family of Lali Kubatashvili, where she symbolically marked the completion of the gasification project by lighting a gas stove. Georgian Gas Transportation Company handed a gas stove to the Kubatashvili family as a gift.

Within the framework of the three-year large-scale gasification plan approved by the Government, in 2019-2021, a total of 29 villages in the Kvemo Kartli Region will be gasified, which will cover 7 870 subscribers.