Eye on the prize: Gazprom deputy chairman Alexander Medvedev
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Kovykta deal ‘in early 2008’
Russia gas export monopoly Gazprom wants to sign a deal with oil supermajor BP for the giant Kovykta field early in 2008 after the deal was delayed this year, the company’s deputy chairman Alexander Medvedev said today.
"We would like to make it as quickly as possible," by the first quarter of 2008 "at the latest," Medvedev told reporters after an address at Georgetown University.
Medvedev reiterated that he wants partners in the ExxonMobil-led Sakhalin-1 project to sell their output to Gazprom, which would then sell the natural gas on the domestic market, Reuters reported.