On working meeting between Alexander Ananenkov and Viktor Ishaev
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Khabarovsk hosted today a working meeting between Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of Gazprom Management Committee and Viktor Ishaev, Plenipotentiary Envoy of the Russian Federation President to the Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD).
The parties discussed the progress with the Eastern Gas Program execution in the FEFD placing a focus on such issues as construction of the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas transmission system (GTS) and speeding up Gazprom’s resource base creation in Sakhalin and Yakutia.
The meeting paid special attention to the gas supply and gasification of the Russian Federation constituents in Russia’s Far East, as well as efficient utilization of the available industrial opportunities in the FEFD during the Eastern Gas Program execution.
Background
The September 2007 Order by the Russian Federation Industry and Energy Ministry approved the Development Program for an integrated gas production, transportation and supply system in Eastern Siberia and the Far East, taking into account potential gas exports to China and other Asia-Pacific countries (Eastern Gas Program). Gazprom was appointed by the Russian Federation Government as the Program execution coordinator.
According to the Program new gas production centers will be established in Eastern Russia: the Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Yakutia, Kamchatka and Sakhalin centers.
The Program stipulates the prioritized creation and development of the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok GTS to be subsequently connected to a gas pipeline from the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The GTS is being constructed according to the assignment by the Russian Government and the decision by Gazprom Board of Directors.
The first start-up complex of the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok will be commissioned in the third quarter of 2011. The complex will secure gas supply to the Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krais and the Jewish Autonomous District as well as provide commissioning of power generation capacities in the Primorsky Krai required, inter alia, for the 2012 APEC Summit.