OREANDA-NEWS. On June 26, 2007 a Gazprom delegation chaired by Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee visited shipyards in the cities of Saint-Petersburg and Vyborg, reported the press-centre of Gazprom.

The visit was held in the frames of a working trip to machine building companies of the Northwest region.

The Gazprom delegation visited the Baltic and Vyborg Shipyards turning out products to be potentially needed during the execution of Gazprom’s priority projects at the Arctic Shelf. The parties examined the companies’ opportunities to construct offshore drilling platforms, cargo vessels as well as LNG carriers.