OREANDA-NEWS. September 16, 2009. Led by Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, the Company’s delegation visited the Primorsky Krai to inspect the construction facilities in the southern block of the first start-up complex, a part of the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas transmission system (GTS).

Alexander Ananenkov held a meeting in Vladivostok attended by managers and experts from Gazprom, Mezhregiongaz, Gazprom promgaz, Giprogaztsentr and their contracting companies.

The meeting participants discussed the issues of constructing a gas lateral from the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas trunkline to the gas distribution station in Vladivostok. A focus was also placed on the prospects for constructing gas distribution networks in Vladivostok from the gas distribution station to the Russkiy Island that would host the 2012 APEC Summit.

Based on the meeting results, the assignments were given aimed at timely execution of these projects.

Alexander Ananenkov also held working meetings with heads of the Primorsky Krai’s regions, where the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok GTS would be constructed.