Led by Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of Gazprom’s Management Committee, the Company’s delegation finalized its business trip to the Far East and the Transbaikal region.

Today in Ulan-Ude Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of Gazprom’s Management Committee and Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn, President – Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Buryatia signed a five-year Accord on Gasification of the Republic of Buryatia.

The Accord provides for the development and implementation of the following documents fostering the regional gas sector development:

• a gasification investment project;
• a energy conservation program;
• a program for conversion of motor vehicles and agricultural equipment to gas.

The Investment Project will include, amongst other things, a General Gas Supply and Gasification Scheme for the Republic of Buryatia planned to be developed during 2008-2009 (the Scheme will take into account various scenarios of energy consumption and socioeconomic development in this constituent of the Russian Federation; a business plan for the construction of gasification facilities; a substantiation of the efficiency and sequence of gas supply and distribution facilities construction.