KHABAROVSK, Russia, April 25 (Reuters) - The head ofRussia's top oil producer Rosneft asked the governmentto intervene and help it get access to a Gazprom's trunk gas pipeline, vital for the liquefied natural gas projectit is planning with ExxonMobil.
Rosneft and ExxonMobil plan to build the LNG plant inRussia's Far East to produce 5 million tonnes per year of thefrozen gas starting from 2018.
Sechin, at a government meeting, said both Gazprom and RoyalDutch Shell, an operator of a gas project in thePacific island of Sakhalin, are denying access to a trunkpipeline for its LNG project. (Reporting by Denis Dyomkin; writing Vladimir Soldatkin;editing by Christian Lowe)