A year after signing the binding contract with CNPC for the annual delivery of up to 38 billion cubic metres of gas via Sila Sibiri pipeline, the Russian state-controlled gas monopoly is also unclear on terms of building and operating the planned facility in China.

Speaking at the World Gas Conference (WGC) in Paris, deputy head of the underground gas storage division in Gazprom, Nikita Barsuk, said that the company intends to build a 1.9