Russia’s Gazprom mulls new cooperative energy projects with Japan

Russian energy giant Gazprom sees new areas of cooperation in the energy sector with Japan, said the company’s CEO Alexei Miller.

“Japan is a major energy market in the world,” he said. “We can see new opportunities, projects, directions for cooperation with Japanese companies.”

Gazprom’s delegation was led by CEO Alexei Miller participates in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit held in Lima, Peru.

During the summit, Miller participated in meetings of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin with Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang, China’s President Xi Jinping, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, where the parties discussed, among other issues, cooperation in the energy sector.

APEC is an international forum bringing together 21 leading economies of the world for cooperation on trade and economic development of the region.

Creating the system of free and open trade and a liberal investment regime in the Asia-Pacific region has been declared the main task for APEC until the year 2020. Peru’s capital Lima played host to APEC’s all-year-round meetings that culminated with the economic leaders’ summit on November 19 to 20.