A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Wang Yilin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of CNPC, took place on 8 June in Beijing.

The meeting participants reviewed a wide range of issues regarding cooperation in the gas sector, including the status of the project for gas supplies via the eastern route (Power of Siberia). It was noted that the project was going according to schedule, with the gas pipeline’s linear part from the Chayandinskoye field to the Chinese border completed by 84.4 per cent (over 1,820 km). Pipe pulling operations were finished in the second tunnel of the crossing under the Amur River within Power of Siberia’s cross-border section.

The parties discussed the commercial and technical aspects of gas supplies to China from Russia’s Far East.

Emphasis was placed on joint efforts in such areas as underground gas storage, promotion of the use of natural gas as a vehicle fuel, and gas-fired power generation.

At the end of the meeting, Alexey Miller and Wang Yilin signed a Supplementary Agreement to the Agreement for cooperation in the field of mutual recognition of standards and conformity assessment results, inked on November 7, 2016. The new document envisages the introduction of regulations on the terms and mechanisms of mutual recognition of testing results for the products of common interest for both companies.