Catherine Palace’s Zubov Wing opened after its ambitious restoration with support from Gazprom at Tsarskoe Selo Museum

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December 20, 2024, 16:25 Today, the interiors of the Zubov Wing in the Catherine Palace were unveiled in an opening ceremony after their ambitious restoration at the Tsarskoe Selo State Museum and Heritage Site (Pushkin, St. Petersburg). The restoration project was implemented with support from Gazprom. Taking part in the event were Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Olga Taratynova,…

Rosatom’s technology helping control yellow fever mosquitos in Latin America

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Agencia Boliviana de Energía Nuclear, ABEN (the Bolivian Nuclear Energy Agency), in collaboration with Instituto Nacional de Laboratorios de Salud, INLASA (the National Institute of Health Laboratories), and Instituto Nacional de Investigaci?n en Salud P?blica, INSPI (the National Public Health Research Institute), for the first time irradiated yellow fever mosquitoes at the Multipurpose Irradiation Center (MIC)…

Keel of the multipurpose nuclear-powered service ship Vladimir Vorobyov laid at the Baltic Shipyard

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On 20 December, the keel of the multipurpose nuclear-powered service ship Vladimir Vorobyov (Project 22770) was laid at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg, Russia. The vessel will facilitate the refueling of nuclear reactors on board the Project 22220 nuclear icebreakers, and in the future, the world’s most powerful icebreaker, Rossiya. The multipurpose nuclear-powered service…

Gazprom and LUKOIL sign General Agreement on Strategic Partnership for 2025–2030

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December 20, 2024, 12:50 A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and senior executives of LUKOIL took place today. The parties signed the 2025–2030 General Agreement on Strategic Partnership. The existing Agreement between them expires in 2024. The companies will continue expanding their cooperation in such areas as exploration, production, transportation, and processing of gas, gas condensate and oil;…

World’s only operational floating nuclear power plant generates 978 Million kWh of electricity in five years

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On December 19, 2019, the floating nuclear power plant (FNPP) – a project developed by Rosenergoatom, part of Rosatom’s Electric Power Division – was first connected to the isolated Chaun-Bilibino grid. Since then, it has steadily increased its output. As of December 19, 2024, the FNPP has supplied approximately 978 million kWh of electricity to…

Rosatom manufactures nitride and oxide uranium-plutonium fuels for the BN-1200 fast reactor

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Rosatom proceeds with its successful research and development efforts to validate innovative nuclear fuels for next-generation fast neutron reactors. Two core designs with different types of uranium-plutonium nuclear fuel are being developed for the BN-1200 reactor: oxide MOX fuel, similar to that used in the BN-800 reactor, and dense nitride MNUP fuel, similar to the…

In first 11 months of 2024, Gazprom builds 657 gas pipelines for Russian consumers in terms of gas infrastructure expansion works

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December 12, 2024, 15:15 The Gazprom Management Committee took note of the information about the progress of the programs for gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the year 2024. It was noted that large-scale work is being carried out in 72 Russian regions under the gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion programs for 2021–2025. For instance, in line with the…

Two new halls of Peter the Great Gallery open at Hermitage Museum with support from Gazprom

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December 9, 2024, 20:20 The opening ceremony for two new halls of The Peter the Great Gallery, which had been created with support from Gazprom, took place today at the State Hermitage Museum. The new part of the exhibition gives the visitors a deeper insight into the epoch of Empresses Anna Ioannovna and Elizabeth Petrovna. Among the exhibits showcased in the…

World’s largest ice rink opened by Gazprom in St. Petersburg

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December 7, 2024, 17:25 The opening ceremony for the Flagshtock Ice Rink, the world’s largest ice rink, took place today on the shore of the Gulf of Finland in St. Petersburg. The facility was built with support from Gazprom. Taking part in the opening ceremony were Vadim Krasnov, Head of Department at Gazprom, Boris Piotrovsky, Vice Governor of St. Petersburg, and Tamara Moskvina,…

Gazprom brings daily gas exports to China via Power of Siberia pipeline to maximum contractual level ahead of schedule

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Background Gazprom’s main partner in China is CNPC, a state-owned oil and gas corporation. In May 2014, Gazprom and CNPC signed the 30-year Sales and Purchase Agreement for 38 billion cubic meters of gas per year to be supplied via the eastern route (Power of Siberia gas pipeline), which is the largest contract of this kind ever signed in the history of the global gas industry. The aggregate amount of gas…

Famil Sadygov: “We are confidently moving to successful completion of year”

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Message to the Media November 29, 2024, 19:08 Famil Sadygov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee: “We are confidently moving to a successful completion of the year. The positive trend observed in the first half of 2024 continued into its third quarter, thus forming the basis for the excellent financial results of the Gazprom Group in the first nine months of 2024  in general. As compared to the first…

Rosatom Delivered Reactor Island Equipment for Power Unit No. 4, Xudapu NPP, China

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Rosatom’s Machine Building Division enterprises in St. Petersburg and Petrozavodsk manufactured and shipped the primary equipment for the nuclear island, power unit No. 4, Xudapu NPP. Rosatom is contributing to the construction of the Russian-designed nuclear island in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Izhora Factory in St. Petersburg delivered a pressurizer for the VVER-1200…

Rosatom’s Scientists Developed Prototypes of Irridum-192-based Micro Sources for Brachytherapy

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Experts from Reactor Materials Institute (IRM), a company within Rosatom’s Scientific Division, have developed ionizing radiation sources based on iridium-192 for use in brachytherapy. The high-dose therapy using these sources is safe for patients and practitioners, while being effective in treating numerous malignant tumors, both intracavitary and interstitial. The uniqueness of Rosatom scientists’ solution is…

Gazprom continuing its comprehensive efforts for rational and efficient development of reserves at Nadym-Pur-Taz region’s fields

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November 28, 2024, 16:13 The Gazprom Management Committee approved the 2025–2029 Technology Program for the development of the remaining recoverable reserves of the Nadym-Pur-Taz region. The Nadym-Pur-Taz region (NPTR) in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area has traditionally been a hydrocarbon production region for the Gazprom Group. It should be noted that its reserves partially lie in hard-to-reach Achimov and Jurassic formations, which are located deeper…

Gazprom Management Committee endorses drafts of investment program and budget for 2025

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November 28, 2024, 16:03 – Gazprom’s overall amount of investments under the 2025 investment program: RUB 1,523.7 billion. – Final investment program and budget will be approved by the Gazprom Board of Directors. The Gazprom Management Committee took note of the information about the Company’s preliminary operating results for 2024 and the projected investment program and budget (financial plan) for 2026–2027. The Management Committee also…

Alexey Likhachev, Rosatom Director General, and Liu Wei, China’s Minister of Transport, convened the first meeting of Subcommittee on Russia-China Cooperation on the Northern Sea Route

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The Subcommittee on Cooperation on the Northern Sea Route (NSR) of the Russia-China Committee for the Preparation of Regular Meetings between the Heads of Government had its first meeting in St. Petersburg on 25 November 2024. Alexey Likhachev, Rosatom Director General is the head of the Russian party of the Subcommittee and Liu Wei, China’s…

Rosatom supported the 2024 African Junior Chess Championship in Cairo

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This esteemed tournament, supported by Rosatom, gathered the most promising young chess talents from Egypt and 13 other African countries, showcasing the strategic brilliance and intellectual capabilities of the continent’s youth. 210 players participated in the finals following the qualifying competitions. The winners of the 2024 African Junior Chess Championship are Hamid Wafa won the…

Gazprom making extensive efforts to expand gas grid coverage in Russia, with special attention being paid to rural areas

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November 26, 2024, 14:35 The Gazprom Board of Directors took note of the information about the progress of the programs for gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and their synchronization with regional programs for converting housing and utilities, industries and other entities to gas, as well as the information about gas supply and expansion of gas grid coverage in the Krasnoyarsk…

Gazprom consistently building up capacities of eastern Russia’s power supply systems

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November 26, 2024, 14:25 The Gazprom Board of Directors took note of the information about the development of the gas transmission infrastructure and the expansion of the gas supply and gas infrastructure network in Eastern Siberia and the Far East, including generating facilities. Gazprom is making comprehensive efforts for establishing a fully developed gas industry in the east of Russia. Among other things, the Company has created such…

Alexey Miller and Moldovan Energy Minister Victor Parlicov discuss relevant matters of interaction in gas sector

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November 25, 2024, 19:45 A working meeting took place between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Victor Parlicov, Minister of Energy of the Republic of Moldova. The meeting addressed the relevant matters pertaining to the interaction in the gas sector. In particular, the parties agreed to continue discussing options for organizing the supplies of Russian natural gas to Moldova starting from January 1, 2025,…

Alexey Miller and Kazakh First Deputy Prime Minister Roman Sklyar discuss current and prospective cooperation

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November 25, 2024, 13:50 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 parties discussed their ongoing and future cooperation. For instance, attention was paid to the cooperation in gas supplies and transmission. The Heads of Agreement for the processing and sales of gas from…

Alexey Miller takes part in negotiations between Russia’s Minister of Energy and Iranian officials

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November 19, 2024, 21:30 Today, Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, as part of the Russian delegation, participated in the negotiations held in Tehran between Sergey Tsivilev, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, and the officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The meetings addressed the matters of cooperation between Russia and Iran in the energy sector. Background In June 2024, the Strategic Memorandum on the…

The Center for Remote Participation of the Unified information space for fusion research was opened at MEPhI and the university tokamak was connected to it

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On November 18, the opening of the Center for Remote Participation (CRP), one of the communication nodes of the Unified information space for fusion research created by Rosatom, took place at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, the basic university of the Rosatom State Corporation. The tokamak "MEPHIST-0" was also connected to the Unified information…

Russian gas making major contribution to ensuring global energy security

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November 14, 2024, 20:00 A Gazprom delegation takes part in the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is held in Baku (Azerbaijan). The Company representatives delivered reports as part of the Energy Day organized by the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation. In his speech, Kiril Polous, Deputy Head of Department – Head of Directorate, Gazprom, noted that Russia’s gas industry…

Continuing growth in demand for gas and other conventional energy sources being main outcome of 2024 in global energy sector

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November 14, 2024, 19:50 The Gazprom Management Committee took note of the information about the impact of the events of 2024 on the long-term outlook for the global energy market. It was noted that, in the global energy sector, the main outcome of the year 2024 is a continuing growth in demand for conventional energy sources against the background of the unstable geopolitical situation and an increased attention to the…

Gazprom working to improve gas monitoring system

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November 14, 2024, 19:40 The Gazprom Management Committee approved the 2025–2029 Comprehensive Target Program for the Provision of Metrological Support for the Operations and Technological Processes of Gazprom. The document is designed to further enhance, as well as to ensure the technological development of, the system that monitors the physical-and-chemical properties and volume of gas during its pipeline transmission. To that end, the Company equips the…

Technical possibility of taking part in additional gas grid expansion provided to 1.4 million households

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November 14, 2024, 19:35 The Gazprom Management Committee took note of the information about the progress of additional gas infrastructure expansion in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, namely the efforts for bringing pipeline gas to the boundaries of private households and boiler houses of medical facilities and educational entities at no cost to the consumers. The additional gas grid expansion program is being implemented in accordance with the instructions…

Around 25,000 people from 100 countries took part in ROSATOM’s Global Atomic Quiz 2024

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On November 10, World Science Day, ROSATOM held the Global Atomic Quiz for the fifth time—an educational project aimed at highlighting various applications of nuclear technologies in different areas of human life. This year, the quiz was conducted both online and offline, attracting 25,000 participants from 100 countries. For comparison, in 2023, around 10,000 people…

Gazprom’s pipeline supplies of Russian gas to China throughout 2024 to be above contractual levels

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November 11, 2024, 19:40 A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Huang Yongzhang, Vice President of CNPC, took place today. The parties discussed a wide array of matters pertaining to their strategic cooperation. Special priority was given to Russian gas supplies. It was noted that highly reliable supplies of Russian gas via the eastern route, i.e. the Power of Siberia gas pipeline,…

Russia to Explore Mega Oil Merger – WSJ

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Moscow is exploring a plan to merge its three largest oil companies into a single mega oil producer, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.  Under the merger, state-backed Rosneft Oil would absorb Gazprom Neft—a subsidiary of the natural gas giant Gazprom—and Lukoil, sources familiar with the discussions told The Wall Street Journal. The deal would…

Burkina Faso Says Country Prefers Russia Partnership Over France

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Burkina Faso’s foreign minister praised cooperation with Russia on Saturday as “suiting” his country better than its historic ties with France. Following a 2022 military coup, Burkina Faso’s new leadership broke with Paris and has embraced Russia, which has sent army instructors to help Ouagadougou’s fight against an Islamist insurgency. Attending a Russia-Africa summit in…