OREANDA-NEWS. On March 21, 2007 at the Gazprom Headquarters, Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee conducted the meeting on implementation of synchronized Exploration, Engineering and Construction Schedule aimed at executing an Investment Project to provide gas supply and gasify the Irkutsk Oblast’s top priority facilities, reported the press-centre of  Gazprom.

The meeting was attended by heads and specialists of Gazprom, Irkutskgazprom, Tomsktransgaz, Mezhregiongaz as well as Promgaz core business units.

The participants discussed the progress with the Schedule stipulating gas supply to regional top-priority consumers in 2007. Special attention was paid to the implementation of the project work with due regard of modern technologies providing reliability and ecological security of gas transmission systems as well as negotiations with independent subsoil users and potential regional gas consumers.

At the end of the meeting, Gazprom’s core business units and subsidiaries were tasked with continuing the execution of the Schedule as part of the General Scheme of Gas Supply to and Gasification of the Irkutsk Oblast in cooperation with the regional authorities.

Additionally, the core business units were entrusted with preparing proposals on development of the NG and NGV fueling stations in the Irkutsk Oblast including the development of a Program to convert motor vehicles and agricultural equipment to natural gas and LNG.