The system will be also be used to export gas to energy-hungry China and other countries in the Asia Pacific Region (APR).
A draft program to set up the system was discussed and approved at a conference in Novosibirsk with participation of the presidential envoy to the Siberian Federal District, Anatoly Kvashnin, and deputy Gazprom board chairman Alexander Ananenkov.
"It was stressed that it [the program] would become the main document for the Siberian Federal District's gas industry development," a company news release said. "According to common opinion, the program's priority is satisfying Russian consumers' gas demand, while gas deliveries outside Russia should be made via a single export channel."
The participants in the conference paid particular attention to the development of the gas-processing and chemical industry, especially helium production from hydrocarbon raw materials produced in the district.
"Intensive development of the oil and gas sector in the country's east will create prerequisites for the comprehensive development of the Siberian and Far Eastern federal districts," the news release quotes Ananenkov as saying.
