OREANDA-NEWS. On 20 July 2009 was announced, that the Irkutsk region will get additional RUR 160 for gasification. It was said after the meeting of Dmitriy Mezentsev, Irkutsk Region Governor and  Andrey Tatarinov JSC “Gazprom dobycha Irkutsk” General Director.

This decision was the result of the meeting of Alexander Ananenkov,  Irkutsk Region Governor with Deputy Chairman of Gazprom Management Board which took place at the beginning of June. Alexey Miller, the representative of the Management Board of Gazprom responding to the head of the Regional government took the decision concerning the allocation of RUR 160 million for the regions gasification program to the Irkutsk region. Together with this, the Company will retain the amount of financing of the activity directed to gasification of Zyaba village of the Bratsk region in the amour of RUR 75 million.

Additional RUR 160 millions will be directed to the gasifiacation of Bratsk. Due to this, it is planned to finance the construction of the part of the gas pipe-line from Gas-distribution system Osinovka to the boiler house of JSC Irkutskenergo. It is planned to put into operation the pipe line and the heat source in the current year.

“We highly appreciate the present cooperation between the region and Gazprom company”, noted Dmitriy Mezentsev. – We are certain that it will provide as soon as possible the gasification to the inhabited locations which representatives have been waiting for a long time for the natural gas.” We shall say that at present the gasification level of the Irkutsk region is one of the lowest in Russia – a little bit higher than 8%.