Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Ulziisaikhan Enkhtuvshin, Deputy Prime Minister of Mongolia, signed a Memorandum of Understanding Dec. 5 that provides for a joint assessment of the feasibility of pipeline gas supplies from Russia to China across Mongolia.
The MOU comes after a working meeting between Miller and Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, Prime Minister of Mongolia, Dec. 3 in Moscow where the parties discussed the prospects of energy cooperation.
During the meeting it was noted that in November Gazprom Export carried out the first small-scale delivery of Russian liquefied natural gas to Mongolia.
On Nov. 4, Gazprom Export delivered the first batch of Russian LNG to Mongolia to be used as a vehicle fuel in municipal transport in the country's capital city, Ulan-Bator. The batch weighed 36 tons. The first ever rail LNG shipment was loaded in special cryocontainers in Yakutsk on Oct. 22. It crossed the Russian-Mongolian border on Nov. 2.