OREANDA-NEWS. December 12, 2008. On meeting of Joint Coordinating Committee between Gazprom and Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

A regular meeting of the Joint Coordinating Committee between Gazprom and the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, chaired by Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of Gazprom’s Management Committee and Shinsuke Kitagawa, Director-General of the Natural Resources and Fuel Department with the Agency was held in Naha (Japan).

During the meeting the parties took notice of a report on the activities of the Joint Working Group in 2008 and discussed the prospects for further bilateral cooperation within the frames of the Eastern Program, including sci-tech cooperation.

The Joint Coordinating Committee approved the transition to the preparation of a joint investment feasibility study on the project aimed at creating gas processing and gas chemicals facilities to be fed with hydrocarbon products from the Sobinskoye oil and gas condensate field (Krasnoyarsk krai), taking into account a recent preliminary investigation made by the Japanese companies based on Gazprom’s input data. The parties signed the corresponding agreements.