By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, June 15 -- Russia's OAO Gazprom and Urals Energy PCL, Nicosia, Cyprus, agreed to cooperate on gas field and pipeline projects in Eastern Siberia Russia's Irkutsk oblast including development of Dulisminskoye oil and gas-condensate field.
The deal calls for Urals Energy, already developing Dulisminskoye's oil reservoirs, to develop gas-condensate in 2008-09 and sell the field's gas to Gazprom, which will own the regional gas infrastructure (OGJ Online, Jan. 24, 2007). A memorandum signed this week foresees opportunities to set up gas processing and electricity generating facilities.
Gazprom and Irkutsk oblast authorities signed a gas pact in December 2005 that called for comprehensive regional gas development and transmission.
Dulisma Oil Co., a subsidiary of Urals Energy, holds the license on Dulisminskoye field 100 miles north of Ust-Kut (see map, OGJ, Mar. 2, 1987, p. 15).
Gazprom provides exploration and geological works in the western and eastern parts of the Yuzhno-Kovyktinskaya area in the Irkutsk oblast.
Gazprom and ITERA agreed in September 2006 to develop Brastk gas-condensate field just east of Bratsk, and Gazprom and Irkutsk Oil Co. agreed in November 2006 to develop Markovskoye oil and gas-condensate field, 40 miles east of Ust-Kut, and Ayanskoye gas field, between Markovskoye and Dulisminskoye fields.