OREANDA-NEWS. At the Gazprom Headquarters, Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Aslanchery Tkhakushinov, President of the Republic of Adygea signed an Agreement of Cooperation.

The Agreement stipulates the following main aspects of cooperation:
- gasification of the Adygea Republic;
- development and improvement of a stable gas supply system;
- development of capacities to use CNG and LNG as motor fuel;
- development and implementation of gas saving technologies;
- provision of environmental safety and nature conservation;
- development and execution of a program to increase gas consumption metering accuracy;
- creation of a comprehensive automated natural gas consumption and quality measurement system based on existing gas metering units.

The parties will jointly step up measures aimed at improving the Republican energy balance, i.e. rationalizing and vastly using alternative energies.

Pursuant to the Agreement, the Republic will provide full and timely payments for current gas deliveries by budget organizations and will facilitate payment discipline to pay for gas deliveries due to its own financial resources. The Republic will develop and implement the program to provide population with gas metering devices due to budget and other financial resources, local government authorities will set up economically reasonable norms for natural gas consumption without gas metering devices usage.

Gazprom and its subsidiaries will provide reliable natural gas supply for Adygea gas consumers taking into consideration annual gas quotas for Russia, consumer demand and level of payments.