OREANDA-NEWS.The Gazprom Board of Directors has approved of a purchase of Russian Energy Projects Company (REP) and a stake in Territorial Generating Company #1 (TGC-1), the Gazprom press service reported.

TGC-1 is a subsidiary of RAO UES of Russia. The company was established in March 2005 and supplies electricity and heating energy to four constituents of the Russian Federation including Saint-Petersburg, the Leningrad  and Murmansk Oblasts, Republic of Karelia.

REP is a company acting in the interest of the Gazprom Group having submitted an application to purchase a stake in TGC-1 in the framework of an additional emission of shares and sale of the governmental stake of TGC-1.

In September 2007, REP fought off competition to purchase TGC-1 shares issued due to the additional emission of shares.