Gazprom and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area sign Agreement of Cooperation for new five-year period
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A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Natalia Komarova, Governor of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area – Yugra (KhMAA), took place today.
Natalia Komarova, Governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area – Yugra (KhMAA)
The parties discussed their ongoing and future cooperation. Particular attention was paid to the implementation of the Area's gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion program for 2021–2025.
In early 2023, the document was updated taking into account the region's need for additional gas infrastructure facilities. The supplemented document envisages the renovation of the Gornopravdinsk gas distribution station (GDS) in the Khanty-Mansi District and the construction of a supply gas pipeline to the prospective compressed natural gas filling station in Nizhnevartovsk.
By now, Gazprom has finished the renovation of the Gornopravdinsk GDS and is preparing its launch. The capacity of the GDS has been increased 4.5-fold, from 2,200 to 10,000 cubic meters per hour. This will make it possible to deliver additional amounts of gas to the existing consumers and connect new ones in the settlement of Gornopravdinsk and the Khanty-Mansi District.
In the Nefteyugansk District, the Company continues to build the gas pipeline branch from the Urengoy – Chelyabinsk gas trunkline towards Nefteyugansk, together with two GDSs, Pyt-Yakh and Karkateevy, on the route. At the same time, Gazprom is laying three inter-settlement gas pipelines. The construction of the gas pipeline to the settlement of Karkateevy is completed. Preparations are in progress for the construction of the gas pipelines that will stretch to the town of Pyt-Yakh and the city of Nefteyugansk.
A gas pipeline branch complete with a GDS and an inter-settlement gas pipeline to the settlement of Zelenoborsk are under construction in the Sovetsky District.
Within the Area's localities already covered by the gas grid, Gazprom, as part of additional gas grid expansion, brings pipeline gas to the boundaries of households' land plots and boiler houses of medical facilities and educational entities at no cost to the population and such facilities.
In the course of the meeting, Alexey Miller and Natalia Komarova signed an Agreement of Cooperation for 2024–2028. The document was signed as a follow-up to the current five-year agreement which expires in 2023.
According to the new Agreement, Gazprom will continue to provide reliable gas supplies to consumers and expand the gas supply system and the NGV refueling infrastructure in the region. The Company, as before, is ready to facilitate the preservation of employment and increase the employment rate in the Area, as well as to ensure availability of jobs for young specialists. The Agreement is also focused on Gazprom's support of indigenous minorities of the North.
In its turn, the KhMAA Government will, inter alia, assist the Company in the implementation of investment projects.
Background
The Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area (KhMAA) is a strategic region for Gazprom. Major gas transmission corridors stretch across the region's territory, delivering natural gas from the fields located in the north of Western Siberia to the European part of the country.
Gazprom and the KhMAA Government are bound by the 2019–2023 agreement of cooperation and the agreement on the wider use of natural gas as a vehicle fuel.
The updated 2021–2025 program for gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion in the KhMAA envisages the construction of four gas pipeline branches with GDSs, four inter-settlement gas pipelines, as well as inter-settlement networks. Conditions required for gas grid connections will be created for over 1,250 households and 12 boiler houses in the city of Nefteyugansk, the town of Pyt-Yakh, the settlements of Karkateevy and Zelenoborsk.
There are 11 CNG filling stations of Gazprom in the region.
As part of the Gazprom for Children project, multi-purpose sports grounds for children were constructed and renovated in the KhMAA. In December 2019, the Russia – My History interactive historical park was opened in Surgut with support from the Company.