The city of Irkutsk has hosted a circuit session of the Field Development Workshop of Gas Industry Commission for Field Development & Subsoil Use.

The participants examined a technological scheme for the Western and Eastern block development in the Yuzhno-Kovyktinskaya area with the distinguished pilot operation period developed by Promgaz and executed pursuant to the Schedule Plan on synchronizing geological survey, engineering and construction aimed at implementing an investment project for the regional top-priority gas supply and gasification facilities during 2006-2008.

The participants decided to prepare for the Chikanskoye gas condensate field development located in the Zhigalovsky Region of the Irkutsk Oblast. The preservation of unique Siberian nature must be the major issue within the field development.

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The General Scheme of gas supply to and gasification of the Irkutsk Oblast was developed by Gazprom within the Agreement of gasification between Gazprom and the Irkutsk Oblast Administration. The General Scheme was approved by the Irkutsk Oblast Governor Alexander Tishanin in December 2005.

Gazprom holds two licenses for subsoil use aimed at geological survey of the Western and Eastern blocks in the Yuzhno-Kovyktinskaya area.

Irkutskgazprom (a wholly owned subsidiary of Gazprom) is a customer for engineering and construction of hydrocarbon field development facilities in the Irkutsk Oblast. The licenses for engineering and construction of hydrocarbon field development are owned by Gazprom.

Promgaz is a general gas supply and gasification facility designer.

On February 8, 2007 the Federal Agency for Subsoil Use issued a Certificate of the Chikanskoye gas condensate field discovery.