Gazprom head meets UK's energy minister
Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller and UK's energy minister Malcolm Wicks have held a working meeting in Moscow to discuss
prospects of cooperation between Russia and the UK in the gas sphere, Gazprom has said.
The parties considered the possibility of boosting Russia's gas supplies to the UK and the participation of
British-based companies in Gazprom's Russian projects. The two parties addressed the issue of constructing the North
European Gas Pipeline.
Western experts say that by 2010 the UK will be a large net importer of natural gas assessing its demand in gas
imports at 40 bn cm. The pipeline should become the main supply channel with its first stage scheduled to become
operational in 2010.
German-based BASF and E.ON will partner Gazprom within the framework of this project and are to get 24.5 % of shares
in a joint venture with Gazprom, North European Gas Pipeline Company.
