OREANDA-NEWS. June 10, 2008.  As part of the 3rd meeting of the Joint Coordinating Committee between Gazprom and the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Sochi hosted a working meeting between Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of Gazprom’s Management Committee and Shinsuke Kitagawa, Director-General of the Natural Resources and Fuel Department with the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy.

In the course of the meeting Alexander Ananenkov informed the Japanese partners of the progress in Gazprom’s activities stepped as part of the Eastern Gas Program, including of the work being done by the Company to create the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas transmission system.

The parties agreed that the execution of the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas pipeline project and subsequently the Yakutia – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok project will create a favorable environment for prospective extra gas deliveries to be organized from Russia to Japan.

“In meeting the priority challenge of satisfying growing gas demand in Russia’s Far East regions, Gazprom sees the potential for prospective deliveries of natural gas, its by-products and gas chemicals from Russia’s Vladivostok to Japan,” said Alexander Ananenkov at the end of the meeting.