OREANDA-NEWS. At the Gazprom Headquarters, Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Valery Serdyukov, Governor of the Leningrad Oblast have inked a Cooperation Accord for 2007.

Under the Accord, the Government of the Leningrad Oblast will arrange for full payments for gas deliveries by budget-sponsored consumers, set economically justifiable gas consumption standards for the population as well as exercise control over standby fuel stockpiling and utilization by gas consuming companies.

Gazprom is committed, on its part, to supplying gas to the regional consumers, taking account of available gas transmission capacities and preset gas quotas. The Company will take part in gasifying the Leningrad Oblast in accordance with the Conception of Gazprom’s participation in the RF regional gasification and the Program on gasification of RF regions between 2005 and 2007.