The Gazprom headquarters hosted a working meeting between Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Company's Management Committee and Alexander Khoroshavin, Governor of the Sakhalin Oblast and the Oblast Government Chairman.
Alexander Ananenkov and Alexander Khoroshavin signed the Memorandum of Understanding on the gasification development in the Sakhalin Oblast as an entity of the Far East Federal Okrug and on the oil and gas processing facility creation on the Sakhalin Island.
Gazprom and the Sakhalin Oblast Government entered into the Agreement of Cooperation and the Accord on Gasification in September and November 2006 respectively.
In 2009 Gazprom developed and adopted the General Scheme for gas supply to and gasification of the Sakhalin Oblast.
In March 2011 Gazprom commissioned gas supply facilities to convey gas to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
This year Gazprom carries on the Sakhalin Oblast gasification efforts, a gas lateral and the Nogliki GDS are being designed.