Gazprom Completes First Section of Gas Facility in Austria

Russian gas monopoly Gazprom said Thursday it had completed the construction of the first section of the Haidach underground gas storage facility in Salzburg, Austria, together with Austria's RAG and Russian-German joint venture WINGAS.

The construction of the second section is planned to be launched on late 2008 and to finish it in April 2011.

Haidach will be the largest underground gas storage in Austria and the second-largest in Central Europe.