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Alcoa Inc., the world's largest aluminum company, is surveying options for constructing a plant in the Khabarovsky region of the Russian Far East, Khabarovsk administration officials reported Tuesday.

First deputy head of the Khabarovsk regional government Vladimir Popov met with an Alcoa delegation, led by the U.S. company's commercial development manager, Lawrence Castner, to discuss opportunities for building a factory in the region, a press statement from Khabarovsk administration reported.

Popov suggested three possible sites for the plant’s construction - the port of DeKastri, the port of Vanino or the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, 400 km from Vanino.

According to Popov, DeKastri is favorably located near the gas pipe while Vanino boasts developed transportation infrastructure. Komsomolsk-on-Amur combines both the proximity to oil and gas pipes and a developed infrastructure.

The Alcoa delegation agreed that Komsomolsk-on-Amur would be the best choice for the plant which could produce annually 300,000 to 350,000 metric tons of aluminum.

The amount could later be doubled and in this case a considerable investment into development of Komsomolsk-on-Amur energy resources would be required, the statement said. The project's cost was not discussed at the meeting.

The company’s delegation plans to visit all three sites in the near future.

Alcoa owns two aluminum production plants in Russia - the Samara Metallurgical Plant and the Belaya Kalitva, which it bought from Russia's No.1 aluminum producer RUSAL in 2004.