Additional Investments from Socar Turkey to Bursa and Kayseri

Within the scope of natural gas business unit activities that started in 2019, it distributes, wholesales and trades natural gas through Bursagaz and Kayserigaz group companies.

According to the data announced by GAZBİR (Turkish Natural Gas Distributors Association); As of the end of 2023, 84 percent of Turkey's population has access to natural gas, and an average of around 10 million new subscribers have been added to the system every year in the last 1 years. While SOCAR Turkey invested approximately 170 million dollars in total in Bursa and Kayseri in four years, it has reached approximately 1,9 million subscribers to date.

SOCAR Turkey Natural Gas Business Unit President Fuad İbrahimov emphasizes that it is very important to ensure a safe and continuous supply of natural gas as well as delivering it to large masses, and points out that approximately 94 percent of the population has the opportunity to access natural gas service within the license borders of Bursa and Kayseri provinces where it serves. pulled.

Stating that, together with Bursagaz and Kayserigaz, they predict that the distance will reach 2024 thousand 14 kilometers by the end of 770, İbrahimov said, “We increased our regional investments planned for 2024 in Bursa by 80 percent on a kilometer basis with the updates we made at the beginning of the year. With the positive contribution we will make to the city's air quality with our new regional additional investments, more users will experience the comfort of natural gas. "In addition, with these additional investments, we will increase the capacity and employment of our stakeholders and solution partners with whom we work together operationally, thus providing positive benefits to all links in our supply and stakeholder chain and to the economy," he said.

In addition, İbrahimov stated that they provided the service to the citizens in the new investment area in order to facilitate transactions and said, “Our customer representatives will be at the neighborhood headmen's offices on the determined days every week to receive subscription applications. In addition, as a company that has implemented important work by focusing on digitalization, we have been providing our customers with the convenience of making their transactions with a phone call without coming to our centers for a long time with the concept of "office-free service"." said.