Gazprom calls the development of capacity in the East a priority

Gazprom considers the establishment and development of gas, gas transmission, gas processing and gas chemical production facilities in the regions of Eastern Siberia and the Far East priority of the company.

Following the Board of Directors held today, the board of the company was commissioned to organize the development of comprehensive plan for the development of gas, gas transmission, gas processing and gas chemical production facilities in East Siberia and the Far East, which will besubmitted to the board of directors in the IV quarter of 2009.

In September 2007 the Ministry of Industry and Energy approved the State Program inception in Eastern Siberia and the Far East, a unified system of gas production, transportation and supply with the possibility of gas exports to China and other Asia Pacific countries (Eastern Gas Program ). Gazprom was appointed by the Government of the RF coordinator for this program.

As part of the Eastern Gas Program Gazprom in the light of the Strategy is working out a conceptual proposal for the establishment in Eastern Siberia and the Far East refineries. In particular, the possibility was being considered a gas processing plant (GPP) and gas-chemical complex (MCC) in the Krasnoyarsk region on the basis of Sobinsko-Payginskogo gas condensate field, GEA and MCC in the Irkutsk Region on the basis Chikanskoye condensate field, GEA and MCC in the Republic of Sakha ( Yakutia), the LNG plant and the MCC in the Primorsky Territory on the basis of Chayanda gas condensate field, GEA in Khabarovsk for the processing of natural gas, which will be produced under long-term projects on development of deposits on the shelf. Sakhalin.