At a session on 15 December 2006 the board of managers of the Foundation of the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia took a decision to prepare the project of a national state programme, entitled "the development of the sphere of oil and gas research and mining in Georgia on the basis of computer systemic modelling and monitoring and other modern technologies". To develop the project of the programme, a temporary oil and gas commission was formed in the following composition.
Chairman of the Commission - Professor Zurab Mgeladze, chairman of the Union of Oil and Gas Producers of Georgia, Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy;
Expert-coordinator - Yuriy Bakhtadze, Laureate of State Premium; geologist-oil miner;
Expert - Vladimir Laliyev, engineer-geologist;
Referent – Marina Pailodze, specialist of the computer modelling of geological facilities;
The temporary commission began operation on 7 March 2007. The programme envisages:
Implementation of modern geological and technological systems that is necessary for the development of the field;
Creation of a legal and institutional base that is necessary for the management of the field;








Substantiation of the energy security and economic profitability;
The commission carried out a large-scale scientific work, on the basis of which two working scientific conferences were held with participation of leading scientists and practitioners of the field, as well as representatives of the authorities.
Ministry of Energy of Georgia
Technical University of Georgia
The Oil and Gas Corporation of Georgia
The National Agency of the Oil and Gas of Georgia
The Canargo Energy Corporation
JSC Frontera Eastern Georgia
JSC Ioris Veli
Participants of the conference assessed the programme elaborated by the commission as high-professional, competent and urgent for the economic development of the country and its energy security.
The participants of the conference expressed their deep gratitude towards Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II and His Foundation. The final version of the programme will be ready to be handed over to the state in mid-July.