The Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) is likely to take
part in the Eastern Gas Programme coordinated by Russia ’s energy
giant Gazprom.
The issue was discussed at the
first meeting of the Gazprom-PetroVietnam Joint Coordinating Committee,
which concluded in Saint Petersburg on August 31.
Co-chaired by Gazprom Deputy CEO Alexander Ananenkov and PetroVietnam
Vice President Nguyen Tien Dung, the meeting highly valued the joint
work of both Gazprom and PetroVietnam on exploration of the continental
shelf of Vietnam as well as prospects for bilateral cooperation in oil
and gas projects in Russia and third countries.
Gazprom and PetroVietnam have effectively cooperated in a number of
oil and gas projects in Vietnam and created a joint venture,
Gazpromviet, to develop projects in Russia and third countries.
The Eastern Gas Programme, which was approved in September 2007, is
to create a single system of gas production and transportation in
Russia ’s Eastern Siberia and Far East with possible exports to the
markets of China and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
The programme also includes the construction of the
Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok transportation system, which will
provide “green energy” for Russia ’s Far East./.