RUSSIA: Gazprom program of sustainable energy supplies to Far East

Russia's major producer of natural gas OAO Gazprom has presented here the Eastern Program of energy resource supplies to East Siberia, the Russian Far East, and Asia-Pacific country in this century.

"The Eastern Program was endorsed by the Russian government in September," Alexander Ananenkov, a deputy chairman of the board of governors said at the presentation ceremony here Friday. "it aims to develop the gas industry so as to ensure reliable supplies to consumers in East Siberia, the Far East, as well as Asian and Pacific countries, including Japan."

He recalled that the program had been developed over a number of years and the drafting process involved experts from the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Ministry of Natural Resources.

Following endorsement of the program on September 3, the government commissioned coordination of all the works related to it to Gazprom.

"The document provides for laying grounds for a sustained economic development of Russia's eastern regions and possible long-term supplies to Asian and Pacific countries," Ananenkov said.

"It embraces the first fifty years of this century as a minimum but on the whole we believe the basic elements and principles embedded in it will ensure reliable supplies of energy resources /to the earlier mentioned regions/ on the scale of the entire 21st century," he said.


Via: Islamic Republic News Agency

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