Gazprom meets with Far East officials

MOSCOW, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Gazprom chief executive Alexei Miller met with local officials in Kamchatka Krai to discuss the construction of a gas trunkline, the gas monopoly said.

Miller met with Alexei Kuzmitsky, the governor of Kamchatka Krai, to discuss contraction of the Sobolevo-Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky gas trunkline for gas supply for the Far East region.

Gazprom in 2007 moved on gas supplies and developments in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the administrative center of Kamchatka Krai.

As part of that effort, Gazprom agreed to carry out early development of the Kshukskoye and Nizhne-Kvakchikskoye fields on the western coast of the Kamchatka peninsula.

Gazprom as part of its efforts in Kamchatka Krai plans to invest $8.65 million for the engineering and construction of gas connections from the automated gas distribution station in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to a combined heat and power plant.

The Sobolevo-Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky gas trunkline is scheduled to be commissioned in 2010.