OREANDA-NEWS. At the Gazprom Headquarters, Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Sherig-ool Oorzhak, Chairman of the Government of the Tyva Republic have entered into an Agreement of cooperation.

In pursuance of the Agreement, the major joint businesses of Gazprom and Tyva Republic will be as follows:

• implementing the national Program on setting up an integrated gas production, transmission and supply system in Eastern Siberia and the Far East, taking into account potential gas exports to China and other Asia Pacific countries (East Program);
• preparing and implementing regional hydrocarbon field exploration & production programs and projects based on the East Program;
• developing programs and executing projects for gas supply to and gasification of the Tyva Republic with compressed and liquefied gas;
• developing and introducing gas- and energy-saving technologies;
• preparing and agreeing on rational regional energy balances in a long run with the use of local resources;
• creating a comprehensive ecological monitoring system.

The Government of the Tyva Republic will render a full-fledged support to Gazprom in discharging its functions of the East Program implementation coordinator.

At present, liquefied gas penetration in the household sector of the Tyva Republic is at 71.2 per cent. Gazprom doesn’t supply natural gas to the Republic.