SKorean corporation to participate in supplying gas to Primorye

VLADIVOSTOK, January 28 (Itar-Tass) - The South Korean KOGAS
state-owned corporation will participate in supplying gas to towns and
villages in the Primorye Territory, which is being made now by the Russian
Gazprom Corporation. The South Korean company will be Gazprom's partner in
implementing this project, Itar-Tass learnt on Thursday from the press
centre of the Primorye Territory administration.
This understanding was reached on Thursday between KOGAS president
Choo Kingsoo and Governor of the Primorye Territory Sergei Darkin.
According to the press centre, the achieved understanding provides for
setting up a working group for detailed discussion of cooperation in this
sphere. The group includes Vice-Governor Yuri Likhoida from the
administration of the Primorye Territory and KOGAS Vice-President Mr. Kim.
The sides also agreed to mull over the question on establishing a
joint institution on working out projects for building inter-village
networks. The KOGAS Company also expressed interest in building a
liquefied gas factory and other gas chemical production facilities in the
Primorye Territory.
The construction of a Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok gas pipeline
started last September. The first stage of the project is to be put into
operation in the first quarter of 2011.
According to specialists, the total gas consumption in the Primorye
Territory will amount to 4.6 billion cubic metres a year. The Master Plan
for Gas Supplies has been already drafted for the Primorye Territory.
Plans for gas supplies have been worked out for all the 34 municipalities
in the territory. The project is based on a comprehensive approach to the
use of gas. Its main consumers will include the power industry, housing
and communal services as well as the petrochemical industry.
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