In 2024, this figure with regard to all groups of Gazprom's gas consumers, i.e. Russian residents, industrial and public utility enterprises totaled 98.2 per cent. The development of the convenient Personal Account digital service is among the factors positively affecting the payment collection rate.

Every third Gazprom's client is already using the Personal Account service.

The Company's clients can use it to make a payment for gas, set up an automatic payment, submit gas meter readings, and do many other things. In 2024, the number of users of this online service reached 10.6 million people, and the collection rate of payments via the service grew by 29 per cent.

The outstanding consumer debt is decreasing for the fourth year in a row.

Throughout 2024, the total overdue debt for the supplied gas was reduced by RUB 13.2 billion to RUB 139.8 billion. The largest debt reduction is observed in the Arkhangelsk, Yaroslavl, Bryansk, and Moscow Regions, as well as in the Krasnodar Territory.

Gazprom applies a targeted approach to debtors in order to reduce the debt for the gas supplied. In particular, the Company jointly with regional authorities develops repayment schedules for overdue debts of heat suppliers. Gazprom also regularly updates client bases and takes initiatives to improve the existing legislation that regulates the procedure of paying for gas.

Today, the Gazprom Board of Directors reviewed the information about improving the payment discipline, as well as the measures being taken to recover the debt for the gas supplied.

The Belogorsk – Khabarovsk gas pipeline will connect the existing Power of Siberia and Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas pipelines. This is the primary stage of the “Eastern Gas Supply System (EGSS)” Gas Trunkline System project. The EGSS project provides for a comprehensive development of gas transmission capacities in eastern Russia and their further integration with the gas transmission system in the European part of the country.

The construction of the Belogorsk – Khabarovsk gas pipeline is 37.6 per cent complete.

In particular, by now, as many as 356 out of 828 kilometers of the gas pipeline have already been welded, laid and backfilled. The construction of the submerged crossings under the Arkhara and Tom Rivers was completed, and work is in progress on the crossings under the Amur, Bureya, Tuguska, and Zeya Rivers.

In the future, it is planned to add gas pipeline branches to the Belogorsk – Khabarovsk gas pipeline to expand the gas grid coverage in the cities of Belogorsk and Birobidzhan located along the gas pipeline route.

Preparatory works are underway on another EGSS section.

Laser scanning of the area was performed and comprehensive engineering surveys are nearing completion at the section between the existing Anganskaya and Alexandrovskaya compressor stations. This section will connect the existing gas trunklines running across the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area – Yugra and the Tomsk Region. It will create possibilities for supplying additional gas volumes to the consumers in the Republic of Altai, the Altai Territory, as well as the Kemerovo, Novosibirsk and Tomsk Regions.

EGSS is a transition of onshore gas pipelines to the record-high pressure of 150 atm.

Russian pipe manufacturers created a unique steel pipe of K70 strength class with a diameter of 1,420 millimeters for Gazprom and mastered the production of this item. The new-generation pipes are designed for the working pressure of 150 atm (14.7 MPa), a record-high pressure for onshore gas pipelines. Russia will become the first country in the world that uses such pipes for the construction of gas pipelines.

The innovative solution makes it possible to increase the gas pipeline's throughput capacity without significant changes in its metal consumption and requires fewer compressor stations. As a result, we observe optimized capital and operational costs combined with a high reliability of gas transmission.

Welding procedures have already been adopted for the construction of EGSS gas pipelines with the use of the new-generation pipes. Russian industrial enterprises have developed equipment for compressing, purifying and cooling gas at the working pressure of 150 atm. The creation of pipeline fittings and shut-off and control valves that are compliant with the specified requirements is at its final stage.

Today, the Board of Directors approved Gazprom's work on implementing the “Eastern Gas Supply System” Gas Trunkline System project.

The parties discussed the state and prospects of mutually beneficial cooperation between them. 

The recently reached daily high for gas supplies is already topped: on April 9, as many as 1.217 billion cubic meters of gas were delivered to consumers via the Unified Gas Supply System of Russia.

The growth in gas consumption by Russian residents is due to an abnormally cold weather being observed in the Central, Northwestern and Southern Federal Districts of Russia.

An eco-friendly and cost-efficient energy source was made available to 3,100 households and 16 boiler houses.

For instance, a new gas pipeline in the southeastern part of the Vladimir urban territory made it possible, for the first time ever, to deliver gas to consumers in the villages of Abbakumovo, Vilki and Zlobino, as well as to increase gas supplies to the settlements of Seltso and Shirmanikha.

In the Kirov Region, pipeline gas was brought to six localities, namely the villages of Fedosyata, Rai, Sergeevy, Ulanovy, Zamyatiny, and the settlement of Klimovka.

In January-March, Gazprom completed the construction of a total of 79 inter-settlement and intra-settlement gas pipelines in Russian regions.

Additional amounts of gas can now be supplied to consumers in the Kaluga, Ryazan, Tula, and Voronezh Regions.

In the first quarter of 2025, the Company modernized seven existing gas distribution stations in said regions. The aggregate capacity of these facilities increased by more than one-third, or by 700 million cubic meters per year, which is comparable, for instance, to annual gas consumption in the Republic of Adygea.

The progress of the programs for gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the year 2025 was considered by the Gazprom Management Committee today.

It was proposed to set the deadline for the submission of voting ballots as June 26, 2025.

The Management Committee approved:

• the draft agenda of the absentee voting to be held for decision-making by the Shareholders Meeting;
• the proposal on the procedure for notifying shareholders about the absentee voting for decision-making by the Shareholders Meeting, as well as the draft notice on the holding of said voting;
• the proposal on the list of information materials that will be sent to Gazprom's shareholders within the timeframes and to the addresses indicated in the abovementioned notice;
• the format and content of voting ballots and the wording of decisions on the agenda;
• the proposals on the composition of the Shareholders Meeting Presidium and its Chairman;
• the draft amended Articles of Association of Gazprom. The amendments to the Articles of Association had been made mainly to reflect the changes in the Federal Law on Joint Stock Companies.

The aforementioned materials and proposals will be submitted to the Board of Directors for consideration.

The Management Committee resolved to submit for consideration to the Board of Directors Gazprom's Annual Accounting (Financial) Statements for 2024 compiled in accordance with the Russian legislation.

The Management Committee approved the composition of the Shareholders Meeting Drafting Commission.

The record was set on April 8 at 1.188 billion cubic meters of gas.

The growth in gas consumption by Russian residents is due to an abnormally cold weather being observed in the Central, Northwestern and Southern Federal Districts of Russia. Gazprom is providing reliable gas supplies in the required volumes.

The works were in progress from March 28 to April 4. At the request of the Chinese party, Gazprom arranged the preventive maintenance at the Power of Siberia's facilities in such a way as to ensure that the gas supplies continue during the period of such works; the volumes of the gas supplies provided during such period had been specially agreed by the parties.

Upon completion of the scheduled preventive maintenance, daily exports of gas to China via Power of Siberia resumed at their maximum contractual level.

According to the Sales and Purchase Agreement between Gazprom and China's CNPC for gas to be supplied via the eastern route, preventive maintenance on equipment and gas pipeline systems is performed on Power of Siberia twice a year: in spring and in autumn.

According to Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE), gas reserves contained in Europe's underground gas storage facilities decreased to 34.3 billion cubic meters as of March 31, accounting for a third of the total storage facilities' volume and being 25.3 billion cubic meters lower than a year ago.

Thus, as much as 62.9 billion cubic meters of gas were already withdrawn from the facilities by the end of the first quarter of 2025. This figure is 25.2 billion cubic meters higher than the volume injected into the facilities in the previous summer, being the maximum excess ever observed.

This season's average daily gas withdrawal rate (390.3 million cubic meters as of March 31) became the second highest in the history of observation. It is second only to the figures observed in the 2017–2018 season, when an unusual cold snap had affected Europe. However, this time, European countries did not face any climate challenges.

It should be noted that the net gas withdrawal in March 2025 was 40.9 per cent higher than in March 2024.

By the end of this year's first quarter, Germany, the Netherlands and France used up more reserves than other European countries.

Said countries are among the top five with the largest gas storage capacities in Europe. By the start of the withdrawal season, the level of reserves in their UGS facilities had comfortably exceeded 90 per cent, while, as of March 31, it dropped to 28.7, 21.1 and 25 per cent in each of the abovementioned countries, respectively.

Taking into account the reduction in reliable gas supply sources available, it is going to be a challenging task this summer to fill European UGS facilities and get thoroughly prepared for the winter.

Gas reserves in Ukraine's UGS facilities reached an all-time low in the observation period.

As of March 31, gas inventories in said storages amounted to just 5.4 billion cubic meters (including cushion gas). In this withdrawal season, by the end of the first quarter of 2025, a total of 7.3 billion cubic meters of gas were withdrawn from Ukraine's UGS facilities, which exceeds the amount injected into the facilities in summer by one-third.

In Türkiye, gas consumption breaks new record highs.

According to the calculations based on relevant data of Türkiye's exchange company EPİAŞ, gas consumption in January-March exceeded 21 billion cubic meters, which is an all-time record of the first quarter of the year for Türkiye's gas market.

The parties discussed the current state of and the outlook for Türkiye's natural gas market. It was noted that constructive cooperation between Gazprom and private importers of natural gas to Türkiye in general, and Bosphorus Gaz Corporation A.S. in particular, has been ongoing for as many as 15 years already.

The volume of gas supplied by Gazprom exceeded the contractual amount.

This is the third record set since December 1, 2024, when the exports via the Power of Siberia gas pipeline had been brought to the maximum contractual level.

Russian gas supplies are performed under the long-term Sales and purchase agreement between Gazprom and CNPC.

According to Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE), gas reserves remaining in Europe's UGS facilities amount to 39.2 billion cubic meters as of February 28, the last day of the calendar winter. Said gas reserves account for 38.5 per cent of the total storage facilities' volume, with this amount being 24.3 billion cubic meters lower than a year ago.

The average gas withdrawal rate is 36 per cent above the level of the preceding season and 22 per cent above the average level observed over the previous ten years.

It should be noted that this occurs under the weather conditions that correspond to the regions' climate normals.

Gas is being withdrawn from the inventories accumulated during the previous years.

The reserves that had been prepared for this winter period were depleted back in January. As of February 28, a total of 58 billion cubic meters of gas were withdrawn from Europe's UGS facilities, which is 1.5 times higher than the amount injected into the facilities in summer.

Over the previous 10 years, the withdrawal season at European UGS facilities lasted from 19 to 51 days after the end of the calendar winter (i.e. after February 28). The volume of gas withdrawn from the underground storages during each of said periods varied from 1.8 to 11.2 billion cubic meters. This year, the figure may be higher. 

Therefore, by the beginning of the injection season, the gas reserves in Europe's storages will have been spent to a considerable degree. Taking into account the reduction in reliable gas supply sources available, it is going to be a challenging task this summer to fill European UGS facilities and get thoroughly prepared for the winter. 

In Türkiye, gas consumption hits new record highs. 

According to the calculations based on relevant data of Türkiye's exchange company EPİAŞ, gas consumption across Türkiye was at a record-high level in November-February and exceeded 30 billion cubic meters. An absolute record in terms of monthly gas consumption – more than 8 billion cubic meters – was set in February. As per the statements of BOTAŞ, February also saw Türkiye set two new records for the country's daily gas consumption, hitting a new record high at 333.7 million cubic meters.

The Agreement of Cooperation was signed by Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, Olga Lyubimova, Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, and Alla Manilova, Director of the State Russian Museum.

Preserving the cultural legacy

The Russian Museum will be the coordination center for the projects aimed at the development of the national school of restoration. The key projects include the creation of a single inter-museum scientific & research restoration center and the development of restoration workshops across Russia. The workshops are planned to subsequently become the basis for developing a regional network of specialized research & restoration centers. It is also planned to establish a single digital information resource designed for its users to exchange their professional experience, as well as to disseminate unique restoration methods.

New generation of restoration specialists

Another important focus of cooperation between the parties is to lay the foundations for cultivating a new generation of restoration specialists and transferring to them the precious knowledge from the country's best professionals. To that end, the experience gained by Gazprom under the Friends of St. Petersburg project will be widely employed. The project, inter alia, aims to engage talented young people in the profession of a museum restoration specialist.

The Agreement provides for the creation of an internship system for senior students of universities and colleges to gain experience under the supervision of qualified mentors. Regular research and restoration activities will also be provided for young specialists. The geography of the activities will include, inter alia, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions of the Russian Federation. Young restoration specialists will also be able to share their achievements and experience with each other during the annual national festival.

The parties to the Agreement will promote a volunteer movement and ensure that everyone interested can engage in the restoration art.

Alexey Miller:

“For many years, Gazprom has been systematically supporting large-scale projects for the preservation of the cultural heritage and historical memory of the country. In collaboration with the State Russian Museum, we consistently implement programs designed to develop and promote the traditions of the Leningrad school of restoration, whose work remains a benchmark for quality and due care as regards the restoration of items of cultural and historical significance. Experts all across the globe use the experience accumulated by the Leningrad restoration professionals. Our goal is not just to preserve it, but to add to it and expand it.

Under the Friends of St. Petersburg project run by Gazprom, training programs in restoration are already being provided to students of universities specializing in the relevant fields. The tripartite agreement will make it possible to expand this work to cover the entire country and engage new talented young specialists in these activities. And let them always be united by the adherence to traditions and the creative labor that are the glory and the pride of the Leningrad school of restoration.”

Olga Lyubimova:

“Development of the national school of restoration is a mission of importance for preserving the national cultural legacy.

Since 2019, the State Russian Museum and Gazprom have been effectively cooperating in the field of comprehensive scientific restoration of museum items. The tripartite agreement involving the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation will strengthen this cooperation and help achieve a true synergy.

With our combined expertise and knowledge, we will be able to bring restoration works to a new level. It is important that the best methods and practices will be available for their study and use throughout the whole country. Under the careful guidance of mentors, gifted young people will get an opportunity to master the necessary skills and preserve the national heritage for future generations.”

Alla Manilova:

“The world-famous restoration school of the Russian Museum is notable for its outstanding craftsmanship and the high professionalism of its specialists, as well as for the careful handling of priceless artworks and time-honored traditions: the Russian Museum restoration workshops were founded more than 100 years ago. The Russian Museum addresses the challenges of the time and is always ready to help colleagues restore damaged artworks.

The agreement on the development of the national school of restoration will make it possible to bring up a whole plethora of young professionals who, basing on the multi-year experience of their mentors, will be able to work with the use of the latest high-tech achievements of Russian science.”

The transition to natural gas significantly improves the quality of people's lives. The industrial and agricultural sectors receive a powerful impetus for their development.

Since the beginning of 2025, a total of 50 gas pipelines have been built, most of them in rural areas.

For instance, this includes inter-settlement gas pipelines to villages and rural settlements in the Voronezh, Rostov, Ryazan, and Kirov Regions, the Republics of Bashkortostan and Mari El, as well as the Republic of Udmurtia.

In February, Gazprom started the first-ever pipeline gas supplies to the Bolsherechensky District of the Omsk Region. Now, the possibility of gas grid connection is available to about 3,000 households in the villages of Kurnosovo, Kirsanovka, Gushchino, and Reshetnikovo, as well as in the district center, the workers' settlement of Bolsherechye.

A total of 1.2 million contracts for additional gas grid expansion are executed.

This is more than 85 per cent of the total number of contracts for bringing pipeline gas to the boundaries of households' land plots that have been signed with the citizens by now. Inter alia, over 800,000 Russian families have already installed in-house gas supply equipment and use gas. At present, more than 1,000 houses a day get connected to gas.

Medical facilities and educational entities continue to switch to pipeline gas. As many as 950 contracts have been concluded with them, and pipeline gas has reached the land plot boundaries of 592 entities.

In 2024, the collection of applications for additional gas grid expansion commenced with regard to the households in gardeners' non-commercial partnerships that are situated within localities already covered by the gas grid. As of the date, more than 27,000 contracts have been signed with the residents of such gardeners' partnerships, and some of them are already performed.

The progress of the programs for gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion, as well as the progress of additional gas grid expansion, in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the year 2025 was considered by the Gazprom Management Committee today.

Alexander Shagov has been appointed Head of Department 715.

Alexander Shagov has been employed with Gazprom since 2010. In his previous post at the Company, he served as Deputy Head of Department 715 – Head of Directorate.

Elena Kasyan, former Head of Department 715, has been relieved of her post due to retirement.

Anton Mukhin has been appointed Deputy Head of the Management Committee Administration – Head of Directorate 127.

Anton Mukhin has been employed with Gazprom since 2002. In his previous post at the Company, he served as First Deputy Head of Directorate 127.

Galina Tarasova, former Deputy Head of the Management Committee Administration – Head of Directorate 127, has been relieved of her post due to retirement.

The list of persons entitled to participate in the Shareholders Meeting will be drawn up on the basis of Gazprom's Register of Shareholders at the end of the business day on June 2, 2025.

The Board of Directors included the following items in the Shareholders Meeting agenda:

– on the approval of the Company's Annual Report;

– on the approval of the Company's Annual Accounting (Financial) Statements;

– on the approval of the distribution of the Company's profit based on the results of 2024;

– on the amount, period and form of the dividend payout based on the results of 2024, as well as on the date when the list of persons entitled to receive dividends is drawn up;

– on the appointment of the Company's Auditor;

– on the remuneration for the Board of Directors Members, who are not governmental officials, in the amount established by the Company's regulatory documents;

– on the remuneration for the Audit Commission Members, who are not governmental officials, in the amount established by the Company's regulatory documents;

– on the early termination of membership in the Company's Board of Directors;

– on the election of the Company's Board of Directors Members;

– on the election of the Company's Audit Commission Members.

The Board of Directors approved the list of nominees for the Gazprom Board of Directors to be voted on at the Shareholders Meeting.

The Board of Directors approved the list of nominees for the Gazprom Audit Commission to be voted on at the Shareholders Meeting.

The Gazprom Group took part in the Safe Arctic 2025 extensive inter-agency experimental research exercises which are held by the Russian Emergencies Ministry.

Gazprom provides a high level of reliability and industrial safety at the production facilities, including those located in the Arctic. The Company adopts advanced technologies and cutting-edge machinery and maintains readiness for prompt responses to and elimination of emergencies. All types of emergency response and rescue units are constantly functioning at Gazprom to ensure gas, fire and blowout safety both offshore and onshore, as well as to prevent oil spills.

Today, scenarios of actions to be taken by the Russian Unified State System for the Prevention and Elimination of Emergency Situations (RSChS) were practiced as part of the Safe Arctic 2025 exercises at Gazprom's facilities in the Yamal-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Areas.

During the exercises, training activities were successfully performed to practice information exchange between headquarters at different levels and fire & rescue units of Gazprom and the Emergencies Ministry of Russia; ways to apply special, fire-fighting, rescue, and robotic equipment; and the practical actions of firefighters and rescue workers to be implemented during rescue operations in the harsh conditions of the Arctic.

The results of exercises will be taken into account to further advance safety measures at industrial facilities in the Far North.

The Gazprom Board of Directors held a meeting in absentia.

The Board of Directors reelected Mikhail Rosseev, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee – Chief Accountant at Gazprom, as a Member of the Gazprom Management Committee for a 5-year period starting from February 19, 2025.

A meeting of the Inter-Agency Council in charge of implementing the Agreement of Cooperation between St. Petersburg and Gazprom was held today by Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company's Management Committee, and Alexander Beglov, Governor of St. Petersburg.

It was noted that Gazprom provides reliable gas and heat supplies to consumers, while also working on further upgrade of the city's power supply systems.

For instance, the Company is building the Sestroretsk and Vostochnaya-2 gas distribution stations (GDSs) in the Vsevolozhsky District. The launch of the Sestroretsk GDS will make it possible to decommission two existing stations located within the city boundaries, namely, the Konnaya Lakhta GDS and the Severo-Zapadnaya CHPP. The Vostochnaya-2 GDS will enhance the reliability of gas supplies in the city and the adjacent territories.

In addition, Gazprom commenced the construction of the Saint Petersburg GDS in December 2024, which will be the largest one to provide gas supplies to the city's consumers. The station will be located to the south of St. Petersburg and will replace as many as three stations currently in operation, namely the Shosseynaya GDS, the Moskovskaya Slavyanka GDS and the Yuzhnaya CHPP. A gas pipeline is planned to be built in order for the new GDS to be connected to the existing networks. The design documentation is being developed to that end.

The modernization activities at the city's thermal power plants (CHPPs) continue. At the Central CHPP, the Company is preparing the launch of the equipment installed in the new hot-water boiler, which is scheduled for the summer of 2025. The design documentation development is in progress for upgrading the equipment of the Vasileostrovskaya CHPP and the Severnaya CHPP.

A significant contribution to ensuring a favorable urban environment is made by the public transport that runs on eco-friendly NGV fuel. Since 2014, more than 135 million cubic meters of gas were sold for the city passenger buses via Gazprom's NGV refueling facilities. According to experts, greenhouse gas emissions by public transport vehicles were reduced by 250,000 tons as a result of substituting petroleum fuels.

The urban improvement works being carried out by Gazprom make St. Petersburg even more comfortable for its residents and attractive for millions of tourists. For example, in 2024, architectural lighting was provided for the Palace Bridge, the mansion of Elizabeth Buturlina and the tenement house of Peter Veiner. Upgrade of architectural lighting for the architectural ensemble of Technologicheskaya Square (Admiralteysky District) is nearing completion, along with the comprehensive urban improvement of the Scientific Quarter area (on Vasilyevsky Island, namely: Tamozhenny Lane, the Universitetskaya Embankment from Tamozhenny Lane to Mendeleev Line, Mendeleev Line, Birzhevoy Proyezd, Birzhevaya Line, Birzhevoy Lane, Academician Sakharov Square, Tiflisskaya Street, Tiflissky Lane, and the site near the Twelve Colleges building).

In May 2024, the new city tour titled Peter's Way was launched in the Petrogradsky District. The Peter's Way tour goes through iconic places where the city was born: the Petrovskaya Embankment, Peter the Great's Cabin and Trinity Square.

To date, the works on the replacement of the surrounding fencing have been completed at such cultural heritage sites of federal significance as the Kazan Cathedral and the Mini-garden on Kazan Square (Tsentralny District).

Gazprom continues to develop the public space on the coast of the Gulf of Finland near the Gazprom Arena stadium. In December 2024, the Flagshtock Ice Rink, which is the world's largest ice rink, was opened here. With its area of 28,000 square meters, the ice rink set a new world record which was entered in the Russian Book of Records. Its ice surface can comfortably accommodate more than 2,500 people skating. During the two months of the 2024–2025 winter season, the ice rink was visited by about 500,000 people, and the total number of its visitors recorded since its first launch in 2022 is 1.5 million people.

Gazprom is preparing the launch of two large sports facilities on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. The first facility will be a complex consisting of two heated swimming pools near the Flagshtock public space. The second facility will consist of pavilions hosting water sports bases and will be located near the Park of the 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg.

A number of Gazprom's projects are aimed at preserving the cultural legacy and historical memory of Russia.

On July 28, 2024, Russian Navy Day, a monument to the legendary Russian admiral Fyodor Ushakov was opened on Truda Square in the Admiralteysky District; the monument was created with support from Gazprom.

In December 2024, the interiors of the Catherine Palace's Zubov Wing were unveiled in an opening ceremony after their large-scale restoration at the Tsarskoe Selo State Museum and Heritage Site. The project was implemented with support from Gazprom. The Zubov Wing housed private apartments of Empress Catherine II, namely eight halls designed by the architects Charles Cameron and Giacomo Quarenghi. During the Great Patriotic War, the interiors of the halls were lost.

A project for creating the Triumphal Column in honor of Russia's victory in the Great Northern War is being implemented. According to the project, the column will be mounted near the Lakhta Center. It will be decorated with bas-reliefs devoted to major military events and crowned with the statue of Peter I. The works to prepare the construction site commenced in January 2025. In parallel, the works to create the bas-reliefs and the statue of Peter I are underway.

In the course of the meeting of the Inter-Agency Council, Alexey Miller and Alexander Beglov signed the Accord for cooperation in another triennial period of 2025–2027. Gazprom and St. Petersburg will continue their cooperation aimed at providing consumer gas & heat supplies and gas infrastructure expansion, creating social & cultural and social & business facilities, developing the region's NGV fuel market and transport infrastructure, as well as shaping a comfortable urban environment.

The Gazprom Management Committee took note of the information about the geological exploration performed by the Company in the Russian Federation.

It was highlighted that Gazprom conducts large-scale comprehensive geological exploration in Russia every year. The works are carried out to replenish the extracted reserves and expand the mineral resource base of the Company. Gazprom's robust resource base ensures sustainable development of the Company, guarantees long-term reliable gas supplies to consumers and contributes to strengthening the energy security of the Russian Federation.

In 2024, Gazprom conducted a large volume of 3D seismic surveys, drilling and construction works, as well as a large number of well tests. The works were carried out efficiently and performed in full. As a result, the Company's reserve addition rates have yet again surpassed its production rates. The reserve replacement ratio for natural gas has been exceeding 1 for as many as 20 consecutive years.

The bulk of gas reserve additions was achieved in the Arctic, namely on the shelf of the Kara Sea, in the waters of Taz Bay and in the Yamal Peninsula, more specifically, at the Dinkov, Antipayutinskoye, Leningradskoye, and Kharasaveyskoye fields. The Company has also discovered new deposits at the Dinkov and Padinskoye fields in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area.

In eastern Russia, Gazprom carried on with the construction of exploratory wells at the fields of the Irkutsk and Yakutia gas production centers. In 2024, the Company also obtained two subsurface use licenses for areas located in the Irkutsk Region and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), as well as a license for the right to use a subsurface site located in the Orenburg Region.

In 2025, Gazprom will continue to effectively develop Russia's resource base for the benefit of the country and its people.

A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Roman Sklyar, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan, took place today.

The meeting participants discussed matters related to further development of their cooperation in the gas sector.