Platts: Russia to consider gas exports by independent East Siberian producers: report
Russia's President Vladimir Putin has asked his government to consider allowing independent producers to export gas from new fields in East Siberia and the Far East by September 1 in a move that would effectively spell an end to Gazprom's export monopoly.
The decision follows a meeting by the presidential energy commission on June 4, Russia's Vedomosti daily reported Tuesday.
In Russia, gas producers that are not controlled by Gazprom, which enjoys the exclusive right to export pipeline gas and controls the trunk gas transportation system, are considered independents, irrespective of their ownership.