Gas business
The Gazprom Group's strategic goal in the gas business is to retain its leading position among global oil and gas companies by diversifying sales markets and supply methods as regards natural gas and its derivatives, providing reliable gas supplies to consumers, improving operating efficiency and increasing scale of its activities, and developing its technical & technological potential and talent pool.
Exploration and production
Strategic priorities:
- to shape gas production centers in eastern Russia;
- to bring the unique and large fields of the Yamal Peninsula into development;
- to bring the new fields of the Nadym-Pur-Taz region into development;
- to perform follow-up exploration in deep-lying Achimov and Jurassic deposits, as well as in the above-Cenomanian complex within the fields developed in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area;
- to bring continental shelf fields in the northern seas into development.
Priority areas of development in the medium term are as follows:
- to provide for enhanced replenishment of the mineral and raw material base;
- to carry on with the establishment of new gas production centers in Russia;
- to renovate and retrofit the existing gas production facilities in order to maintain production volumes at the design levels.
Gas transmission
Strategic priorities:
- to synchronize the commissioning of gas production, transmission and storage facilities;
- to diversify gas export routes;
- to build new gas transmission capacities;
- to renovate and retrofit the existing gas transmission facilities.
Priority areas of development in the medium term are as follows:
- to construct gas transmission capacities providing for the diversification of gas export routes;
- to construct new gas transmission capacities in Russia in order to supply gas to the domestic market and fulfill contractual export obligations;
- to implement integrated programs for the renovation and retrofitting of the existing gas transmission facilities;
- to decommission excess capacities in the gas transmission system.
Underground gas storage
The strategic goal in the development of Russian UGS facilities is to bring the daily withdrawal rate to 1 billion cubic meters of gas.
Strategic priorities:
- to maintain the current capacity of UGS facilities by renovating and replacing obsolete and worn-out fixed assets;
- to improve the flexibility of Russia's UGS storage system through the following activities:
- arranging small-sized peak-performing gas storages in rock salt caverns, which provide for maintaining the usual level of deliverability while increasing the gas withdrawal volume, doing so before February 1;
- adopting the use of withdrawal compressors at active storage facilities and implementing multi-cycle operation of storage facilities;
- to fill the need for UGS facilities in the underserved regions of Russia;
- to ensure that the daily deliverability and working gas inventories of the existing UGS facilities are increased so that the need for gas is satisfied both today and in the future.
Priority areas of development in the medium term are as follows:
- to renovate and replace obsolete and worn-out fixed assets at the active UGS facilities, including Elshano-Kurdyumskoye, Stepnovskoye, Peschano-Umetskoye, Shchelkovskoye, and Sovkhoznoye;
- to create and develop peak-performing UGS facilities, i.e. the Kaliningradskoye and Volgogradskoye facilities, as well as the Udmurtia Reserving Complex;
- to adopt gas withdrawal compressors at UGS facilities in order to extend the periods of their maximum deliverability during peak loads;
- to implement multi-cycle operation of UGS facilities which allows optimizing the work of gas transmission corridors and production facilities during the periods of reduced gas consumption and makes it possible to replenish the working gas inventories that have been withdrawn since the start of the autumn/winter period and to restore the potential daily deliverability;
- to fill the need for UGS facilities in the underserved regions (potentially in the Northwestern, Siberian, Ural, and Far Eastern Federal Districts of the Russian Federation);
- to implement activities for the construction, renovation and commissioning of the facilities that form part of the underground gas storage system and the adjacent sections of the gas transmission system (GTS) in the Russian Federation in order to achieve the “Maximum daily deliverability of UGS facilities in the area covered by the UGSS” strategic target indicator of 1.0 billion cubic meters of gas.
Gas and gas condensate processing, gas chemistry
Strategic priorities:
- to create new gas processing capacities for the resources located in Eastern Siberia and Russia's Far East;
- to process and transmit projected volumes of liquid hydrocarbons extracted in Western Siberia, the Yamal Peninsula, and the adjacent continental shelf of the Kara Sea;
- to process ethane-containing gas extracted in Western Siberia;
- to expand LNG production.
Priority areas of development in the medium term are as follows:
- to pursue projects aimed at creating new gas processing capacities for the resources located in Eastern Siberia and Russia's Far East, as well as processing projected volumes of liquid hydrocarbons extracted in Western Siberia;
- to renovate the existing capacities;
- to implement projects for LNG production in Russia.
Gas supply
Strategic priorities:
- to expand gas supplies and gas infrastructure in the Russian Federation;
- to implement the additional gas infrastructure expansion in Russian regions;
- to develop the domestic market for natural gas vehicle (NGV) fuel and NGV refueling infrastructure in the Russian Federation;
- to diversify export routes by supplying LNG to the markets into which Russian pipeline gas cannot be imported;
- to increase international gas supplies through the production and sales of LNG.
Priority areas of development in the medium term are as follows:
- to implement gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion programs in Russian regions for 2021–2025;
- to develop the NGV fuel market in Russia.
Final stage of construction of underground gas pipeline in Belgorod Region