OREANDA-NEWS. July 20, 2007.  In Kemerovo Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Aman Tuleev, Governor of the Kemerovo Oblast chaired a meeting dedicated to execution of a pilot coalbed methane production project.

Attending the meeting were heads and specialists of the Gazprom core business units and subsidiaries as well as representatives of the interested Ministries of the Russian Federation and the Kemerovo Oblast Administration.

While opening the meeting Alexander Ananenkov specified that development of efficient methods of coalbed methane production will enable to significantly expand Gazprom’s resource base and will have a social and economic effect. The successful project execution will provide reliable gas supply to producers and Kuzbass population as well as increase work safety at coal mines and stimulate improvement of the ecological situati