Gazprom's Headquarters has hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of Gazprom's Management Committee and Rijkman Groenink, Chairman of the Managing Board of ABN AMRO.

The parties addressed matters of further cooperation deepening and expressed mutual satisfaction with the joint work done to drum up finance for Gazprom’s projects and refinance the Company’s borrowings.

Special attention was paid to ABN AMRO’s activities as a financial adviser of Gazprom on the North European Gas Pipeline project. Alexey Miller and Rijkman Groenink studied possibilities of raising finance for the project.

Rijkman Groenink informed Alexey Miller of ABN AMRO’s experience of participation in assisting global energy companies to diversify their business opportunities.

Alexey Miller underscored that Gazprom was making consecutive steps towards converting into a global energy company and was set therefore to review ABN AMRO’s proposals on that matter.

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Operating through over 3,000 locations in more than 60 countries and employing a total of some 96,000 people, ABN AMRO (the Netherlands) is a leading global bank having some EUR 880.8 bln in overall assets (as at 31 December 2005). ABN AMRO’s securities are listed on the Euronext and New York stock exchanges.

Together with Dresdner Bank AG ABN AMRO is financial adviser of Gazprom on the North European Gas Pipeline project and discharged the same function for the Blue Stream project.

Over the last 7 years ABN AMRO has been the largest lender and secured & non-secured loan underwriter for Gazprom.

In particular, ABN AMRO acted as a co-manager and underwriter on Gazprom’s US$ 13.1 billion loan intended for the acquisition of the Sibneft stake. In May 2005 ABN AMRO acted as a book runner on Gazprom’s non-secured syndicated US$ 972 mln loan intended for the refinancing of borrowings made by the Company between 2003 and 2004. In June 2005 ABN AMRO served as a joint lead manager on Gazprom’s 10-year 1 bln Eurobond issue.