Top managers from foreign gas companies visit Gazprom’s facilities in Far East

Heads of national gas companies from the FSU countries have made a five-day exploratory business trip to Gazprom's facilities in the Far East.

The international delegation was comprised of Vardan Arutyunyan, Chairman of the ArmRosGazprom Board; Alexander Gusev, Chairman of the Moldovagaz Board; Adrian Davis, Chairman of the Latvijas Gaze Board; Tiit Kullerkupp, Chairman of the Eesti Gaas Board; Vladimir Mayorov, Director General of Beltransgaz; Peter Frankenberg, Chairman of the Lietuvos Dujos Board (Member of the E.On Ruhrgas International Board); Saidmamat Sharofidinov, Director General of Tajiktransgaz; Bolot Nazarov, Deputy Director General of KazRosGaz; Kabul Tukhtaev, Deputy Chairman of the NHC Uzbekneftegaz Board as well as heads and experts from these companies.

Gazprom was represented by Valery Golubev, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee; Boris Posyagin, Head of the Central Operations and Dispatch Department as well as experts from specialized structural units.

The foreign colleagues got acquainted with Gazprom's experience in arranging construction of gas supply facilities in several regions of the Far East. In the Primorsky Krai the guests could see operation of the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas transmission system (GTS), the gas distribution station (GDS) of Vladivostok and the inter-settlement gas pipeline connecting the GDS with the Russky Island.

In the Sakhalin Oblast the companies' heads inspected the Sakhalin main compressor station of the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok GTS, a drilling rig in the Kirinskoye field, an offshore production platform in the Lunskoye field and an onshore processing facility of the Sakhalin II project. They also visited Russia's first liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant.

In the Kamchatka Krai the foreign experts were thoroughly informed on Gazprom's activities on gas supply and gasification of the region, in particular, on the status of the project for the Sobolevo – Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky gas pipeline construction.

“Our partners from the FSU countries have long addressed Gazprom with a wish to see Gazprom's operations in the Russian East. Now they could personally see the scale and strategic importance of Russian infrastructure projects.

The facilities have been built actually in the last few years. Their commissioning created the real opportunities for rapid economic development and modernization of Eastern Siberia and the Far East. Shaping a single Eurasian gas transmission system from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean will facilitate a deep economic integration of Russia, European and Middle Asian countries,” said Valery Golubev.

“We, gasmen, have always been together, and this is our reality and the future. And nothing will break these ties as all the national companies represented here are an inalienable part of Gazprom's whole system. I am very grateful for arranging and conducting this workshop and the visits to the gas facilities under construction in the Far East,” said Adrian Davis.

“We were greatly impressed by the gas facilities meeting high global standards like the LNG plant, gas pipelines in Kamchatka and Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok that were built by Gazprom in harsh climatic conditions of this wonderful part of Russia,” said Peter Frankenberg.