OREANDA-NEWS. September 14, 2009. Led by Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, the Company’s delegation made a business trip to the Sakhalin Oblast.

In Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Alexander Ananenkov met with Alexander Khoroshavin, Governor of the Sakhalin Oblast.

The discussion centered on the progress with the Agreement of Cooperation and the Accord on Gasification between Gazprom and the Sakhalin Oblast Administration. The parties also discussed the vital cooperation issues with regard to the Eastern Gas Program execution and the Sakhalin gas production center formation. An emphasis was placed on the synchronized activities of the parties when constructing facilities of the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas trunkline, engineering of the infrastructure to deliver the entitlement gas to the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Combined Heat and Power Plant (CHPP-1) as well as synchronized construction of the northern hub for natural gas withdrawal from the Sakhalin II fields and its delivery to the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas transmission system (GTS).

As part of the meeting Alexander Ananenkov and Alexander Khoroshavin discussed the issues of interaction between the Oblast Administration and Gazprom relevant to the Sakhalin III fields development (Gazprom is the subsurface licenses holder), as well as the possibility to create oil refineries on the basis of the oil resources found offshore the Sakhalin Island. It was highlighted that successful implementation of Gazprom’s projects on Sakhalin would significantly stimulate socio-economic growth in the region.