A contractor working for Gazprom has stopped the extraction of natural gas at the Chayanda gas
field in Siberia. Despite the halt, Russian energy gas giant has said its unit Gazprom Dobycha
Noyabrsk is keeping on extracting and preparing for transportation at the Chayanda field as
planned.
The Siberian gas field was launched last year to supply gas to China via pipeline.
Gazprom has evacuated about 23 employers from the gas field last month after four of them were
found positive for Covid19.