December 28, 2007
Carl Mortished, World Business Editor
Gazprom has renewed its campaign against foreign ownership of Russian gas resources with an attack on ExxonMobil’s Sakhalin-1 project in Eastern Siberia, the last remaining Russian gas venture under foreign control.
ExxonMobil’s plan to sell gas to China was criticised heavily by Alexander Ananenkov, Gazprom’s deputy chairman. He described ExxonMobil’s efforts to export gas from Sakhalin as “attempts to sidestep Russian gas consumers, depriving them of gas which belongs to them by right”.