Russia's natural gas monopoly Gazprom said Friday it had supplied an extra 35 million cubic meters of gas to Turkey after a blast at a pipeline bringing gas from Iran halted supplies on Sunday.

Russia's natural gas monopoly Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] said Monday it has increased gas supplies to Turkey from 20 million to 30 million cubic meters per day after a major explosion on a pipeline bringing gas from Iran halted supplies late Sunday.

Gazprom is attempting to show a new face to the world, one that will lure Western clients and shareholders into viewing the company and its business practices in a better light.

Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Victor Rashnikov, President of Magnitogorsk Iron&Steel Works (MMK) Managing Company have signed a Cooperation Agreement until 2015.

The Gazprom Headquarters has hosted a session of the Working Group for Gazprom intra-corporate governance structure improvement led by Alexander Ananenkov, Head of the Working Group and Acting Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee.

Today (August 30) Alexander Ananenkov, Acting Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee moderated a meeting at the Gazprom Headquarters on the execution of phase one of the Shtokman field development project.

Today (August 28)Irkutsk has hosted a joint meeting of the Russian Federation Government and Noncommercial Partnership Russian Gas Society’s Commissions for Natural and Liquefied Petroleum Gas Vehicles.

Belarus has fully paid its July bill for Russian gas deliveries, Beltransgaz company said.

Alexander Ananenkov, Acting Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee has moderated a meeting in the Company’s Central Office on gas balance parameters till 2020 held on the threshold of a meeting of the Russian Government Commission for the Fuel and Energy Sector scheduled for this fall.

Russian gas exports to Europe fell 12 percent in the first half of 2007 after an unusually warm last winter, Gazprom said.

Russian gas monopoly Gazprom's Board of Directors has approved the company’s restated investment program, which will see total investments of 779 billion rubles in 2007, up 47% on the sum approved in December 2006, according to Russian daily RIA Novosti.

A senior Russian environmental official, Oleg Mitvol, has claimed that a $50 million bribe was allegedly offered to him by the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell in respect of the multi-billion dollar Sakhalin-2 project in Russia.