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Gazprom, the Russian natural gas company and pipeline and LNG exporter to Europe and Asia, has completed measures to ensure uninterrupted domestic and foreign gas deliveries with adequate underground working gas stockpiles for the end of the year when monthly supplies are expected to hit record levels.

Gazprom said the Svobodny thermal power plant has started up to serve the Amur Gas Processing Plant, one of the world’s largest and part of the “Power of Siberia” project comprising pipeline gas for China and LNG for trucks transporting liquid helium as a new Russian Far East export.

June 10 (LNG) - Gazprom Chairman Alexey Miller and his counterpart at China National Petroleum. Corp, Wang Yilin, have held talks in St. Petersburg on the ongoing preparations for the start of Russian pipeline gas supplies to China via the eastern “Power of Siberia” project due to start up on December 1.

   “The construction of the border-adjacent Atamanskaya compressor station, which will maintain the required pressure during gas deliveries to China, is nearing completion,” said Miller. Gazprom said that they also discussed cooperation between the companies in the areas of gas-fired power generation, underground gas storage and use of natural gas as a vehicle fuel.