14:17, 04 February 2014 | GMT +5
Gas price to be determined on May 1 within inflation corridor
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - The price of gas to consumers will be determined on May 1 this year within the current inflation corridor, Chairman of the Agency for Regulation of Natural Monopolies Murat Ospanov told a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, February 4, Kazinform refers to primeminister.kz.

"In the near future we will finish development of a methodology of differentiation of gas rates, which will allow to keep the price within a given inflation corridor. By May 1, we will determine the final price to consumers, while export transit pumping rate will drop and domestic consumption rate will increase," he said.
"There won't be sharp increases in gas prices to the population," Ospanov noted.