“We are burning fire in the country of gas” |
“We have exceeded the limit since the 25th of last month, now I pay 25 kopecks per cubic meter of gas. By God, I can’t deliver, the family takes care of my pension, with 300 manats gas, should we pay for electricity, water, or should we buy food?! I still have 21 days to go, I don’t know how I will do it 10 AZN gas if you hit it, after 2 days it’s gone…”
This is what Mammadkarim Ibrahimov, who paid for gas to a card from a payment machine in one of the supermarkets, says. states that 20He lives in a courtyard house in the area, the area of the apartment is 140 square meters. Heating the house costs him 170-180 manat per month: “Our neighbors are in the same trouble as me, everyone complaint does. In January, the limit will be reset, but we bought from 12 kopecks gas it barely reaches a month. Later 20, we have to pay from 25 kopecks. Those at the top should think about the situation of the people!
As the weather cools down, the number of complaints about gas prices increases. In social networks and this topic is a trend. Activists have organized a campaign, the gas limit from the government cancellation to do, taking into account the livelihood of the population prices they call to download. “Facebook” thousands of users joined the call posted on one of the pages, and in the countless reviews they wrote, they called on the government to review the price of gas sold to the population.
It should be noted that the price of natural gas in Azerbaijan has increased since October 16, 2021. According to the decision of the Tariff Council, the price of each cubic meter of natural gas up to 1200 cubic meters per year will be calculated for the population from 12 kopecks. So far it’s 10 it was a penny.
If the population exceeds the annual norm of 1200 cubic meters, for 1 cubic meter of 2500 cubic meters 20 kopeck, if he exceeds this limit, he will pay 25 kopecks for each cubic meter.
“How many schools are left in the cold…”
Social network activist, Karabakh war veteran, teacher Gulu MammadliFacebook“started a campaign to lower the gas limit. He said in his statement to “Pressklub.az” that the reason for this is the heavy burden of the people social– the burden of expensive gas tariffs on the economic situation: “The natural gas produced in the country and given to the government by foreign companies engaged in oil and gas production for free is sold to the people at a high price. As a citizen, I think that this is a small amount labour creates additional problems for the vast majority of our people who cannot afford food and medicines. How many schools are left in the cold, how many people burn wood in the country of oil and gas. in Georgia free gas is found to give to Armenian churches, but when it reaches the citizens of the country, the price of 1 cubic meter of gas starts from 12 kopecks. As a citizen of the target country, as a representative of the people suffering from this problem, the expansion of the “#gaslimitinilaghvedin” protests and finally the relevant authorities taking the appropriate decision, this shameful prices is to achieve lowering”.
What is the cost of gas sold to the population in Azerbaijan, and does the government make a big profit from this trade? Is it true that foreign companies hand over the produced natural gas to the government for free?
“We import gas from Shahdeniz consortium, Turkmenistan and Russia”
The head of the Oil Research Center to clarify these and other questions Inspiration We spoke with Shaban. The expert says that in 2021 SOCAR on 10The production cost of 00 m3 of gas was 61.23 manats, and this figure decreased by only 0.1% compared to 2020. “In the total costs of gas production for the company, the specific weight of material costs is 3.7%, labour fee 12.1%, deductions to the social insurance fund 2.7%, depreciation deductions 20.8%, repair of fixed assets 5.8%, maintenance of fixed assets 5.2%, transport costs 12.1%, mining tax 18, 6% and so on. contane”he added.
The expert notes that in general SOCAR in addition to the costs incurred for the production of gas, the company’s other costs – gas processing, storage, transportation and purchase from “Azerkontrakt” OJSC (purchased from consortia SOCARtaking into account the expenses incurred, the actual cost of 1000 m3 of gas sold in the domestic market by SOCAR in 2021 was 121.9 manats.
I. Shaban reminds that if we take the year 2021, 12.9 billion m3 of gas was consumed in the country, 5.1 billion m3 of which was used by “Azerenergy” for the needs of thermal power plants. According to the expert, 1 bln. More than 1 billion m3 of gas was used in industry, another 1 billion m3 was used by state and commercial institutions, and 4.5 billion m3 was used in households.
The expert says that Azerbaijan approximately 4-4.5 per year for the domestic market billion more than cubic meters of natural gas is purchased with foreign currency:
We import gas from Shahdeniz consortium, Turkmenistan and Russia. The vast majority of people do not know that in the period of independence Azerbaijan It started importing gas from Russia since 2000 and imported 4 billion cubic meters of gas per year on average until the start of production on the Shah Deniz project. But why do we buy from “Shah Deniz”? Because SOCAR, due to its production and its share in consortia, has approximately 8 bln. cubic meter of gas. So the remaining gas should be bought? There are 2 sources of purchase: domestic consumers and the foreign market. The cost of imported gas is more than 2-2.5 times cheaper than imported gas. With that Azerbaijan it is able to use cleaner energy compared to fuel oil in its domestic market from an environmental point of view, and also increases its share in the markets by stably fulfilling its foreign obligations”.
Do you need a limit? Or is differential pricing possible?
Inspiration Shaban believes that if we pay attention not only to world experience, but also to the region’s gas market, we will see that Azerbaijan the step he took is correct. “Because both people and commercial organizations are getting used to using energy more economically. Let’s take into account that there was no such experience before. I drew your attention to a few facts: Our southern neighbor Iran it is the 2nd gas country in the world. The country of 80 million people consumes 220 billion cubic meters of gas a year and has been facing a gas deficit in winter for the past 2 years. Turkmenistan, our neighbor on the other side of the Caspian Sea, has the title of the 4th gas country in the world. 5 million country 30 bln. consumes more than cubic meters of gas. Although its neighbor, with a population of 33 million, 60 billion Uzbekistan, which needs about a cubic meter of gas, has already become an importer of gas. Such excess consumption of gas in these countries is caused by the fact that, in addition to the low price, the supply of public consumers with meters has not yet been completed. But more than half of the consumers in Azerbaijan are provided with SMART meters.”
The expert adds that one of the main problems here is the low heat retention capacity of the apartments and the government’s slow movement in this regard:
“Approximately 20% of the heat loss from the apartments is due to the quality of the windows, and 30% is due to the material of the walls of the apartments. In Azerbaijan, the application of energy efficiency standards in construction is not controlled so far. Both private residential areas and multi-storey buildings – neither the builder nor its consumer takes into account the principle of “what should I do so that I don’t spend too much on electricity and gas in the future”. A person buys an apartment for 200,000 manats, but hardly spends 1-2 percent of it on solving energy efficiency problems. It is also impossible to understand the views of the government: if you do not put it in front of construction companies in the form of standards, if you are not going to accept it into operation with lower energy efficiency, then you should adopt such laws so that citizens can solve these issues on their own at more accessible prices.”
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