Gazprom Speeds Up Asian Gas Talks

摘要

Gazprom is accelerating talks withits Japanese and South Korean part-ners in an attempt to secure afoothold in Asian markets, as itscustomers in Europe, its key mar-ket, continue to diversify theirsources of supply.The Russian gas giant and aJapanese consortium led by Itochuhave agreed to begin an investmentstudy for an LNG project nearRussia’s Far Eastern city ofVladivostok, Gazprom said in astatement after its Chief ExecutiveAlexei Miller and Japan’s head of theAgency for Natural Resources andEnergy, Ichiro Takahara, consideredthe results of the project’s feasibilitystudy in Moscow.