OREANDA-NEWS. September 17, 2008. Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee held at the Gazprom Headquarters a meeting on gas supply to the Far Eastern regions.

Taking part in the meeting were Yaroslav Golko, Member of the Gazprom Management Committee, Head of the Investment and Construction Department; Igor Fyodorov, Member of the Gazprom Management Committee, Director General of Gazkomplektimpex; heads and experts of the Gazprom Administration core business units; heads of the Company’s subsidiaries including Gazprom invest Vostok, Mezhregiongaz, Gazprom promgaz, Giprogaztsentr and Gazflot.

The meeting addressed the progress in implementing the assignment of the Russian Federation Government concerning execution of the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas transmission system development project. The meeting underlined that the works were being done on schedule, engineering of facilities and coordination of the potential gas transmission system route, as well as land selection paperwork were being performed to ensure initiation of the construction in 2009 and gas supply to Vladivostok within the scheduled time of 2011.

The participants discussed the key technical solutions related to the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas transmission system development project, taking into account its staged development.

Considering Gazprom’s acquisition of the development licenses for the Chayanda and Kirinskoye fields, the Company core business units and subsidiaries were engaged upon the meeting results with arranging activities at the said fields, as well as engineering the Yakutia – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas transmission system and the gas processing and underground storage capacities.