Liquefied gas was in focus at the meeting on Thursday with the United States Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, Khristenko said.
"As regards liquefied gas projects, we are not so much interested in help from the United States as long-term cooperation with it", he said.
In early June, a joint meeting-seminar on liquefied natural gas will be held in Moscow. It will consider the possibility of such supplies to the American market.
"We are very much interested because it is connected with the development of new off-shore fields and methods of gas liquefication. The United States is a very promising market. In American estimates, by 2005 the United States will boost the import of gas 2.5 times, Khristenko said.
(One project intends the setting up of a joint venture with the United States to build a gas liquefication plant on Russia's Sakhalin island in the Pacific. The primary material will be produced on its shelf and the liquefied gas supplied to the United States.) Alongside the diversification of gas markets, we also talked oil supplies to the United States, Khristenko said.
"We discussed Russia's pipeline projects, such as in the priority eastern and northern directions. The northern direction can be greatly oriented towards the American market", he said.
Cooperation in Iraq was also considered. "Iraq was in discussion more in the political than the economic aspect. It is due to the current situation in Iraq", Khristenko said.
