Gazprom's delegation pays visit to Khabarovsk

Headed by Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee, Gazprom’s delegation paid on 23 January a visit to the Khabarovsk Territory.

In the course of the visit Alexander Ananenkov met with Kamil Iskhakov, Plenipotentiary Envoy of the RF President to the Far East Federal District (FEFD), addressing the prospects for cooperation in pursuance of an existing Memorandum of understanding.

Kamil Iskhakov and Alexander Ananenkov convened a meeting with representatives of the executive branch of FEFD’s constituents, discussing a Draft Program on setting up an integrated gas production, transmission and supply network in Eastern Siberia and the Far East with the account of possible gas exports to China and other countries of Asia Pacific (hereinafter the Program).

The parties emphasized that the Program would be a fundamental document for the development of FEFD’s gas industry up to 2030 and gas supplies to far eastern areas, expressing a common opinion that meeting domestic gas demand was a top priority challenge of the Program and Russian gas would continue to be exported via an existing integrated export corridor.

The meeting also heard a Report on the work being done by Gazprom to supply sufficient gas volumes to Russian regions, as stipulated at the RF Government’s 16 December 2005 meeting held in the town of Novy Urengoy.

During the visit Alexander Ananenkov met with Viktor Ishayev, Governor – Chairman of the Khabarovsk Territory’s Government. The meeting addressed issues in relation to the implementation of an Agreement on cooperation between Gazprom and the Khabarovsk Territory.

Special attention was paid to the outlook of the Khabarovsk Territory’s gas transmission system development, as set out in the Program. The parties expressed a common opinion that reliable gas supply to Territorial consumers by existing and projected pipelines could be achieved provided there was a single proprietor of the Territorial gas transmission system. Under the Program, said pipelines will be used for the expansion of the United Gas Transmission System (UGTS) eastwards.

The parties signed a five-year Contract on gas supply to the Khabarovsk Territory.

In pursuance of the Contract, Gazprom and the Territorial authorities will jointly develop and implement an investment project of gas deliveries to the Territory, an energy conservation program and a program aimed at converting motor, railroad, water and aerial vehicles to compressed and liquefied natural gas. The investment project will include:

• a feasibility study;
• a general scheme of gas deliveries and gas infrastructure development;
• Substantiated investments in the construction of gas supply facilities based on a consistent approach to gas utilization embracing gas, heat and power generation markets;
• a viability report for the intensified production of gas chemicals in the Territory.

“The Contract on gas supply to the Khabarovsk Territory is another step towards fulfilling the gas supply tasks set by the Russian Government in Novy Urengoy. On 16 December we first presented a general scheme of gas deliveries and sealed a Contract on gas supply with the Irkutsk region also located in eastern Russia.

Both Contracts are in line with the main principle of the Gazprom-coordinated Program: preferential natural gas deliveries to Russian consumers. In this regard, particular significance is attached to Gazprom’s participation in the development of the Sakhalin offshore and completion of the first stage of the Sakhalin – Komsomolsk-on-Amur – Khabarovsk gas pipeline to be a crucial element of UGTS in eastern Russia”, – noted Alexander Ananenkov.

Information Directorate, OAO Gazprom