Gazprom’s delegation business trip led by Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee in Eastern Siberia and the Far East is running on.

Today Novosibirsk hosts joint meeting between Gazprom delegation and leadership of Representative Office of the RF President in the Siberian Federal District. The meeting was led by Igor Prostyakov, Deputy Plenipotentiary of the RF President and Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee. The leaders of Federal subjects and leading Siberian machine-building enterprises took part in the meeting.

At the meeting opening Alexander Ananenkov emphasized that Gazprom is going to develop cooperation with machine-building enterprises of the Siberian Federal District and purchase equipment and materials on the competition basis within the Program of setting up the integrated production, transportation and gas supply in Eastern Siberia and the Far East due to possible gas export on the markets of China and Asian Pacific countries. Additionally, products must completely meet Gazprom’s requirements as well as packaging for units under construction within the Company’s investment programs over 2007 to 2009 and enable to compete on quality and price.

“Industrial companies in Novosibirsk Oblast might become a basis for regional equipment production in the oil & gas sector of the country, its technologies and scientific & technical opportunities might be used for development of large gas processing complexes in Eastern Russia”, said Alexander Ananenkov.

Machine-building enterprises of the Siberian Federal District were presented within the meeting. Modern technologies of the leading industrial companies in the District were presented to the Gazprom specialists.

Also today Gazprom’s delegation visited Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Science.