DUSHANBE, July 7, 2008, 2008, Asia-Plus  -- Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev met with Valery Gulev, director general of closed joint-stock company (CJSC) Zarubezhneftgaz, in Dushanbe on July 4. 

Zarubezhneftgaz is a subsidiary of Russian state gas company, Gazprom.  

Shavkat Saidov, a spokesman for the Dushanbe mayor, said that in the course of the talks, Ubaidulloyev had expressed satisfaction with Zarubezhneftgaz’s work on exploring oil and gas reserves in Tajikistan.  The mayor expressed confidence that the project designed for nine years will allow meeting the population’s requirements in natural gas.  

Gulev, for his part, informed the Dushanbe mayor of work being carried out on four gas fields and raised the issue of construction of a building of Gazprom’s representative office in Dushanbe.  

The two also discussed participation of Gazprom’s representative office in implementation of social projects in the Tajik capital.  

The spokesman said that taking into account financial potentials of the Russian company, Ubaidulloyev had offered Zarubezhneftgaz to take part in construction of hydropower plants, residential buildings in Dushanbe, as well as introduction of technologies of safe use of the liquefied gas as fuel for vehicles.  

On the allotment of land for construction of the building of Gazprom’s representative office in Dushanbe, the mayor confirmed readiness of the Dushanbe authorities to consider that issue and for his part, he offered the Russian company to provide for construction of a new Russian-language school in Dushanbe, Saidov said.