The Gazprom Board of Directors orders creation of winter gas reserves

The Gazprom Board of Directors orders creation of winter gas reserves

04.05.2008, 11.53

MOSCOW, May 4 (Itar-Tass) - The Gazprom Board of Directors has assigned its departments to draw up plans of preparing the facilities of Gazprom subsidiaries for work in conditions of the 2008 autumn and winter. According to PRIME-Tass, the information came from the Gazprom press department.

The Gazprom Board of Directors set the task of ensuring the fulfilment of maintenance and repair operations at the facilities of the United Gas Transportation Network, and of creating gas reserves in underground gas storages before the beginning of the next autumn and winter period, which should be no smaller than 64 billion cubic metres.

Gazprom’s subsidiaries were assigned to ensure the fulfilment of plans and programmes of diagnosing, repair and rebuilding of the facilities, connected with the production, transportation, underground storage and processing of gas in 2008, as well as the fulfilment of the main operations for preparing the facilities for work in conditions of autumn and winter.

The Gazprom Board of Directors analysed the Gazprom performance during the autumn and winter of the 2007-2008 period. It was pointed out that Gazprom’s subsidiaries had ensured the stable gas supply to Russian consumers, as well as gas exports.