Is Gazprom displacing its representative office in Minsk?

The issue of liquidating the representative office in Belarus will be resolved on January 29.

Russian energy giant Gazprom may consider the issue of liquidating its representative office in Belarus at its board meeting on January 29, TASS says with the reference to the company’s statement.

Gazprom’s Belarus office is located in Minsk.

Board members will participate in the meeting in absentia.

The Belarusian gas transport system operated by Gazprom Transgaz Belarus, a 100-percent Gazprom’s subsidiary, is located in Minsk and supplies natural gas for Belarusian consumers. It comprises over 7,870 km (4,890 miles) of gas pipelines, 13 compressor stations, 3 underground gas storage facilities, 224 gas distribution stations, 27 automobile gas-filling compressor stations and 7 gas-metering stations.

Trunk gas pipelines running across Belarus pump Russian natural gas to the country’s westernmost region of Kaliningrad and further to Lithuania, Ukraine and Poland.