FAS offers to deprive Gazprom of the monopoly on gas storage.

FAS offers to allow independent gas producers build their own underground storages (UGS). Now only "Gazprom" has this right. As Anatoliy Golomolzin, the deputy head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, stated, FAS considers the introduction of state regulation of prices for gas storage in "Gazprom"’s underground gas storages inappropriate and sees the alternative in de-monopolization of the market, "the Izvestiya" writes.

- We do not need to introduce the state regulation of prices for gas storage in the existing storages, though we also can’t allow "Gazprom" to establish the prices for gas storage for the competitors, remaining the monopoly, entirely without controls.