The Gazprom headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee and Richard Paterson, the Global Energy, Utilities and Mining Leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The meeting addressed the current issues of cooperation, touching upon the consulting services on various aspects of financial activities provided last year by PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia to Gazprom and its subsidiary companies. The parties also discussed the issues related to the auditing of Gazprom’s financial statements for 2009.

Background:

PricewaterhouseCoopers International Group of Companies is a global leader in auditing and consulting services. Through a network of its international representative offices, the PricewaterhouseCoopers Group provides professional services in many locations worldwide including Russia (via PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit and affiliated company PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia).

Gazprom and PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit started cooperation in Russia in 1995. Currently, PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit renders the following services to Gazprom:

- auditing annual accounting statements of Gazprom (parent company) prepared in compliance with the Russian legislation;

- auditing annual consolidated accounting statements of the Gazprom Group prepared in compliance with the Russian legislation;

- auditing consolidated financial statements of Gazprom Group prepared in compliance with the International Financial Reporting Standards.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit also serves as auditor for a range of large subsidiaries of Gazprom.