OREANDA-NEWS. OJSC “Gazprom” and Brazilian oil-and-gas company Petrobras have signed the Memorandum of Understanding.

The document provides for interaction of the companies in the field of exploration, extractions, transportations and realizations of hydrocarbons. The special place is given to cooperation in development of sea deposits, in the field of new technologies and manufacture of the liquefied natural gas.

The negotiations between OJSC “Gazprom” and Petrobras addressed the issues on the organization of works on realizations of the Memorandum, the schedule and subjects of working groups, the list of projects representing the mutual interest.

In the prime plan, the parties have agreed to adjust interaction in the sphere of trade in liquefied natural gas, exploration and extractions of hydrocarbons on the Latin American continent, creations of systems of gas transportation in the region. The special attention has been given to a course of realization of the project on Trans Latin American gas main.