Putin to talk with Sakhalin to raise natural gas supply to Japan
Vladivostok, Russia, March 17, Kyodo
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is expected to visit Sakhalin on Saturday for talks with local officials on increasing the supply of natural gas to Japan, an official at the Russian Far East state said Thursday.
After a disastrous earthquake and tsunami hit Japan last Friday, crippling some of its nuclear plants and leaving it short of electricity, the Russian premier has told Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin to boost the supply of liquefied natural gas from the Sakhalin-2 offshore oil and natural gas development project.
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Kyodo