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GAZPROM HEAD HOLDS GAS TALKS IN U.S.

Info-Prod Research (Middle East), September, 2003

Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller visited Houston and Washington last week to discuss the future of Russian natural-gas exports to the United States with U.S. executives and officials. Miller met with ConocoPhillips CEO James J. Mulva and Syntroleum President John G. Holmes, as well as U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, "Vremya novostei" reported on 11 September.

The centerpiece issue was America's growing thirst for imported liquefied natural gas (LNG). According to PACE Global Energy Services, U.S. imports of LNG, currently at 6.5 billion cubic meters (bcm) a year, will rise to at least 40 bcm by 2010, and could top 100 bcm by 2020. Gazprom hopes to build a gas-to-liquid plant to produce LNG on the Shtokman gas field on the Barents Sea,...

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