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Gazprom Gets a Field As Farewell Gift
Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who is vacating the office of Gazprom BOD chairman, has made a farewell gift to monopoly. He has committed Natural Resources Ministry and Industry and Energy Ministry to elaborate the government’s ruling to transfer the Chayanda field to Gazprom.
During the meeting in Yakutia’s Mirny, Dmitry Medvedev committed profile state bodies to accelerate Gazprom’s access to the Chayanda field of Yakutia. This order of the high-ranked bureaucrat, who has all chances to be elected Russia’s president March 2, followed the report of Gazprom BOD Deputy Chairman Alexander Ananenkov. Of 1.26 trillion cu meters of Chayanda reserves, Ananenkov reminded, the proven reserves amount to no more than 380 billion and additional exploration is needed.
But to get down to practical work in the field, Ananenkov specified, it is necessary to decide till the end of the first quarter on providing the license to Gazprom. A gas pipeline from Chayanda via Skovorodino, Blagoveshchensk and Khabarovsk will be the central mains and “the basic energy system of Eastern Siberia in view of the shortage of Sakhalin resources.” “We are to set to the field’s exploration,” the top manager specified. “Go ahead,” the future president answered.
Sources with the Natural Resources Ministry and Industry and Energy Ministry never doubt that the documents will be worked out and approved in the nearest term and Gazprom will be able to proceed to the exploration by the start of the second quarter.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Feb. 07, 2008
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