The Board of Directors took note of the information on the progress of implementing a socially-oriented and cost-effective system of gas infrastructure expansion and gas supplies to serve the
needs of the population.
It was noted that Gazprom is currently performing the updated 2021–2025 programs for gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion in 72 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The Company fulfills the entire range of the required works up to the boundaries of the land plots of consumers: the construction, renovation and technical upgrade of gas pipeline branches and gas distribution stations (GDSs), as well as the construction of inter-settlement and intra-settlement gas pipelines.
As a result of the implementation of the five-year programs, the residents of over 977,000 households and apartments in 5,700 localities will for the first time ever gain access to network gas. A total of 4,700 boiler houses will be able to run on the eco-friendly fuel.
Within the cities and rural settlements already covered by the gas grid, Gazprom is responsible for additional gas infrastructure expansion, namely the efforts for bringing pipeline gas to the boundaries of private households, as well as boiler houses of medical facilities and educational entities. This work is performed at no cost to the population and such facilities.
As of today, Russian residents have signed 1.022 million contracts with the Single operator of gas infrastructure expansion (Gazprom Gazifikatsiya), regional gas infrastructure expansion operators and independent gas distribution entities. As many as 740,000 (or 72 per cent) of the contracts have already been performed.
In addition, a total of 359 contracts for additional gas grid expansion have been signed with medical facilities and educational entities, of which 133 contracts have been executed.
The Gazprom Board of Directors commended the Company's ongoing work on expanding the capacities of the trunkline infrastructure, including the renovation of the “locked” gas distribution stations (with fully utilized capacities).
It was noted that Gazprom consistently and comprehensively expands the gas transmission system in Russia, which is the longest one in the world. First and foremost, this work is aimed at ensuring the high reliability of gas supplies to Russian consumers. In 2022–2023, the Company built some 3,000 kilometers of the linear parts of gas trunklines and gas pipeline branches, over 80 gas compressor units with an aggregate capacity of 1,800 MW and more than 130 gas distribution stations (including renovated and re-equipped ones); these facilities are now either onstream or planned to be put onstream.
The entire length of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline is in operation in eastern Russia. The pipeline provides the necessary conditions for gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion in the population centers which are located along the gas pipeline route. Natural gas is flowing to boiler houses and enterprises, including those in the town of Tsiolkovsky. Currently, the gas pipeline is being expanded, namely, loopings are built and compressor capacities are being increased.
Gazprom continues to enhance the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas pipeline's capacities. The pipeline's throughput is being increased, inter alia, to meet the growing demand for gas in the Khabarovsk and Primorye Territories.
In order to increase gas supplies to consumers in the northwest of Russia, Gazprom puts onstream the planned compressor capacities of the northern gas transmission corridor. Front-end engineering design and design development works are underway to ensure prospective gas supplies to the Republic of Karelia and the Murmansk Region. The Pochinki – Anapa gas pipeline is under construction for the benefit of the current and future consumers in the Southern Federal District.
The Company pays special attention to the re-equipment and reconstruction of gas distribution stations with fully utilized capacities. It helps increase the capacity of gas distribution stations and connect new consumers to these facilities. In 2023, the capacities of 74 such GDSs were expanded. It was pointed out at the meeting of the Board of Directors that the “locked” GDSs do not hold back the implementation of the programs for additional gas infrastructure expansion.
The Management Committee was tasked with continuing the work on the implementation of a socially-oriented and cost-effective system of gas infrastructure expansion and gas supplies to serve the needs of the population, as well as on the expansion of the trunkline infrastructure capacities, including the renovation of the “locked” GDSs.
The Board of Directors took note of the information on introducing in the business activities the standards and the conformity assessment practices developed by the Institute of Oil and Gas Technology Initiatives (INTI).
The mission of the INTI is to develop in Russia a world-class unified standardization and conformity assessment system for the oil and gas industry.
