Petroleum Minister of Egypt, Sherif Ismail announced an initial agreement has been made with Russia's Gazprom to supply around 35 shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG) over the next five years. Gazprom, will send a delegation to Egypt mid-January to complete the agreement, will supply the country with seven shipments of LNG annually from 2015-2020. The volume of the shipments of Algerian gas is around 145,000 cubic metres, to be supplied from April-September 2015 with one shipment arriving each month.