OREANDA-NEWS. October 26, 2009. At the GDF SUEZ Headquarters in Paris Sergey Khomyakov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Jean-Marie Dauger, Executive Vice President of GDF SUEZ have signed an Agreement of Cooperation in Personnel Training.

Pursuant to the document, Gazprom and GDF SUEZ will support the training and probation programs for their employees in Russia and France. The training programs involve such areas as economics and management of gas companies, safety and industrial risks management, international projects execution, LNG production, transportation and regasification, natural gas production from offshore fields, as well as natural gas transportation and storage.

“The long-standing partnership of Gazprom and GDF SUEZ is not limited to Russian gas supplies to France. Our companies are maintaining a constant dialogue on a variety of issues, with the priority given to sharing the expertise in the energy business,” stated Sergey Khomyakov.

Jean-Marie Dauger expressed his content about the Agreement signing: “Today’s document will enable our companies to carry out regular exchange of groups of managers and experts. It will also contribute to the strengthening of mutual understanding and trust, thus facilitating execution of joint projects.”