OREANDA-NEWS. August 13, 2007. Alexander Ananenkov, Acting Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee has conducted today in the Company’s Central Office a Meeting of the Coordinating Committee for the Altai Project, focusing on gas supply and gasification related issues for the Altai Krai and Republic of Altai.

Present at the Meeting were members of the Committee, specialists from the Company’s core business units, Tomsktransgaz and Promgaz.

The Meeting addressed the progress with the development of the General Scheme of gas supply to the Republic of Altai, which is expected to be completed this year. Additionally, the participants discussed the issue of adjusting the General Scheme of gas supply to the Altai Krai, taking account of the gasification prospects for western and southwestern areas of the region.

Furthermore, attention was paid to Gazprom’s participation in designing and building distribution networks, reconstructing large boilers in the town of Gorno-Altaisk and settlement of Maima with a view to ensuring synchronization of consumer readiness to receive gas with construction timing for the Barnaul – Biysk – Gorno-Altaisk gas pipeline with a lateral toward Belokurikha.

At the end of the Meeting the Company’s core business units and subsidiaries were tasked accordingly.