OREANDA-NEWS. October 9, 2007. Moderated by Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee a meeting was held in Tomsk on gas transportation facilities operation in the Far Eastern Federal District. Present at the meeting were representatives of the core business units and subsidiaries of Gazprom.

The meeting addressed current issues of the Integrated Gas Supply System development in Russia’s East with due regard of the approval of the Eastern Program by the Russian Federation Government. Particularly, the parties envisaged the need to primarily develop the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok gas transportation system due to the limited capacity of gas pipelines located in the Far East and the regional growing gas market as well as conduction of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Vladivostok in 2012.

The participants discussed also issues related to execution of the Russian Federation President Directive on Gazprom participation in the gasification project in the Kamchatka Oblast.

“After the approval of the Eastern Program, Gazprom received an opportunity to start a large-scale execution of the Program. Additionally, the execution of separate Program elements Gazprom started a few years ago,” said Alexander Ananenkov.