Documents signed for expanded use of cutting-edge domestic technologies and equipment at Gazprom’s facilities

A number of documents for an expanded use of cutting-edge domestic technologies and equipment at Gazprom’s facilities were signed today at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2022.

Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Artem Zdunov, Head of the Republic of Mordovia, signed a Roadmap to expand the use of high-tech products, including import-substituting ones, offered by Mordovian organizations, for the benefit of the Company.

The Roadmap covers the period from 2022 through 2024. Its implementation will contribute to further enhancing the sci-tech and industrial potential of the republic.

Pursuant to the document, the region will draw up a list of innovative products that are relevant in terms of their implementation at Gazprom’s facilities. The Company will analyze the proposals, including checking their compliance with corporate technical requirements. The certified products will be permitted for use at Gazprom and be eligible for the Company’s procurement procedures.

This is already the second roadmap between Gazprom and the Republic of Mordovia. The first one was signed in 2015. During its validity period, a number of Mordovian industrial enterprises mastered the production and performed the supplies of equipment for the needs of Gazprom.

An Agreement of Cooperation was signed by Alexey Miller and Yan Novikov, Chairman of the Management Board, Director General of the Almaz-Antey Corporation.

The document expands the scope of interaction between the parties and envisages the development of proposals for the localization of services for repair, technical maintenance and support of imported pipeline valves installed at Gazprom’s facilities. In particular, the expanded interaction will include proposals for the development of domestic technologies and equipment to provide said services, as well as the training of qualified personnel.

Special attention will be paid to the possibility of servicing certain types of pipeline valves directly at Gazprom’s production facilities. This approach makes it possible to optimize the timeframes of works.

Alexey Miller and Alexander Trembitsky, Head of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor), signed an Agreement of Interaction.

The document was signed as a follow-up to the 2016 agreement and is aimed at further strengthening cooperation on industrial safety issues. The key areas of joint work include the development of proposals to improve legislation and mutual scientific and methodological support on the issues relevant to the parties.

A number of documents were signed in the presence of Alexey Miller.

Gazprom signed updated Scientific and Technical Cooperation Programs with United Metallurgical Company (OMK) and Severstal.

The documents were signed by Oleg Aksyutin, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee – Head of Department, Gazprom, Anatoly Sedykh, Chairman of the Board of Directors of OMK, and Dmitry Goroshkov, Director for Interaction with Energy Companies and Infrastructure Projects at Severstal.

The updated Scientific and Technical Cooperation Program signed with Severstal will be valid until the end of 2025 and with OMK – until the end of 2026. The documents contain an extended list of innovative products, including those with special operating properties, which the pipe companies plan to master and adopt for the benefit of Gazprom.

Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Kirill Komarov, First Deputy Director General – Director for Development and International Business at State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, signed a Memorandum of Cooperation.

The document envisages the possibility of using the infrastructure of Europe’s first bench complex for testing technologies and equipment for medium- and large-scale production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Gazprom’s interests. The complex is located in St. Petersburg at the site of the D.V. Efremov Scientific Research Institute of Electrophysical Apparatus (NIIEFA) (a part of State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom). In particular, the parties will elaborate the matters related to the testing of domestic LNG offloading pumps, boil-off gas compressors, liquid expanders and other equipment.