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…
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;…
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…
The construction and installation works are completed at Unit 1 of Rooppur NPP being constructed by the Engineering Division of State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom in the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. The personnel of the NPP has started a large-scale test program. On December 18, the first stage of operation commenced for bringing the reactor…
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…
The reactor pressure vessel has been installed in the design position at the construction site of Xudapu NPP Unit 4 (China), which is being built with participation of Rosatom enterprises. The operation was carried out under the supervision of representatives of Rosatom Engineering Division. Earlier, works were carried out at Unit 4 of Xudapu NPP…
Turbine installation was completed at Unit 1 of Akkuyu NPP (Türkiye). The site visit by Türkiye’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Alparslan Bayraktar, along with Alexey Likhachev, the Director General of the Rosatom, underscored the significance of this pivotal event. Sergei Butckikh, Chief Executive Officer of Akkuyu Nuclear JSC, made a report on the…
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…
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…
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,…
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The fifth forum on the nuclear industry development in Egypt that is annually organized by the Rosatom State Corporation Engineering Division and the Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA) of Egypt, was held in Cairo (Egypt) on December 2, 2023. The event is held as part of the Nuclear power week of the Arab Republic of…
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…
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’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…
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…
Indian delegation consisting of the Deputy Chief of Mission of the Indian Embassy in Moscow, Mr. Nikhilesh Chandra Giri, First Secretary of the Indian Embassy in Moscow Mr. Vivek Singh, Head of NPCIL Representation Office (Customer of implementation of Kudankulam NPP, the General Contractor of which is Rosatom Engineering Division) in RF Mr. Swapnil Srivastava…
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…
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…
A ceremony dedicated to the pouring of the first foundation was held at the construction site of Novolakskaya WPP in the Republic of Dagestan. The wind farm will be located on the territory of the Kumtorkalinsky and Novolaksky regions of the republic. The site will house 120 wind turbines with a capacity of 2.5 MW…
A ceremony dedicated to the filling of the first foundation was held at the construction site of Novolakskaya WPP in the Republic of Dagestan. The wind farm will be located on the territory of the Kumtorkalinsky and Novolaksky regions of the republic. The site will house 120 wind turbines with a capacity of 2.5 MW…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Works for installation of the body of molten corium catcher (the so-called core catcher) of El-Dabaa NPP Unit 4 in Egypt (the General Designer and General Contractor being Rosatom Engineering Division) started on November 19. The core catcher is long-lead equipment. It consists of several elements with the total weight over 700 tons (the weight…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
ROSATOM delegation took part in the African Energy Week 2024 (AEW 2024), the largest energy conference on the African continent that ended on 8 November in Cape Town (South Africa). Rosatom participated in the event for the second time, becoming this year’s gold sponsor. The forum brought together more than 5,000 participants including the continent’s…
ROSATOM reaffirmed its commitment as a key partner for African countries in achieving energy balance by hosting the discussion “From Vision to Action: Africa’s Sustainable Energy Transition through Green Innovation” at African Energy Week 2024 (AEW 2024), the continent’s premier industry event which finished on 8 November in Cape Town, South Africa. Participating in numerous…
ROSATOM Engineering Division has handed over to Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev (NNSTU) a virtual NPP unit (VNPP) that will be used for training of nuclear engineers. The software and hardware complex installed in Nizhny Novgorod university is a light version actively used by the Engineering Division’s designers in everyday work.…
ROSATOM will participate in the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), which will begin on November 11 in Baku, Azerbaijan. ROSATOM’s involvement in the event aims to promote nuclear energy as a reliable source of clean energy, playing a key role in combating climate change and…
Alexey Likhachev, the head of ROSATOM, attended the launching ceremony of the fourth serial nuclear icebreaker, Chikotka, at USC Baltic Shipyard JSC in St. Petersburg on November 6. President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, ordered the launch of the vessel via videoconferencing. He noted that the creation of such powerful vessels demonstrates Russia’s industrial,…
During the African Energy Week (AEW) 2024 in Cape Town, TVEL JSC, the managing company of ROSATOM’s Fuel Division, and the South African company AllWeld Nuclear and Industrial signed a memorandum of cooperation focused on decommissioning and radioactive waste (RW) management. The document was signed by Eduard Nikitin, Director for Decommissioning and RW Management at…
November 6, 2024, 20:10 A Gazprom delegation is taking part in the African Energy Week. A panel session on Russia-Africa energy partnership was held as part of the event. Taking part in the panel session were Dmitry Khandoga, Head of Department at Gazprom, Roman Marshavin, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, and representatives of a number of Russian and African companies. The panel discussion was moderated by NJ Ayuk, Executive…
November 5, 2024, 14:45 According to current data, the amount of supplies totaled 32.6 billion cubic meters of gas. The previous maximum was achieved in 2023 (32.1 billion cubic meters). It should be noted that there were 11 days in October when the supplies from the UGSS were performed at the maximum levels ever observed on those dates. Information Directorate, Gazprom Investment Community Gazprom on social…
October 31, 2024, 20:40 The Gazprom Management Committee 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 power generation 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…
October 31, 2024, 20:35 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 and their synchronization with regional programs for converting housing and utilities, industries and other entities to gas, as well as the information about the gas supplies and extension of gas grid coverage in the…
October 29, 2024, 19:00 The Gazprom Board of Directors took note of the information about the development prospects of the shale gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) industries around the world, as well as opportunities and threats facing the Company. It was noted that in 2023, the share of shale gas in the global gas production remained at the level of 2022, thus making about 20 per cent, and…
October 29, 2024, 18:55 The Gazprom Board of Directors expressed its approval of the Company’s ongoing work on implementing the projects for the production and supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG). It was noted that the Company consistently reinforces its positions in this business segment in order to further increase the flexibility and reliability of consumer gas supplies. The large-scale plant within the Sakhalin II project is successfully…
October 29, 2024, 18:50 The Gazprom Board of Directors expressed its approval of the Company’s ongoing work with regard to the implementation of its major investment projects. The projects are aimed at solving strategic tasks, such as to expand the gas supply and gas infrastructure network in Russian regions, to accurately fulfill the export obligations, and to supply the domestic economy sectors with the products of natural gas processing. Gazprom…
October 29, 2024, 18:13 The Gazprom Board of Directors endorsed the revised investment program and budget (financial plan) of the Company for 2024. The overall amount of investments under the 2024 investment program will total RUB 1,641.625 billion, which is RUB 67.998 billion more than was envisaged in the initial version of the investment program approved in December 2023. The adjustments to the 2024 investment program were introduced,…
On November 10, ROSATOM will once again present its international project for raising nuclear awareness – the Global Atomic Quiz 2024 – in celebration of World Science Day. This year’s quiz marks its fifth anniversary and features a special commemorative edition. Conducted online in 13 languages, the quiz will feature events designed especially for schoolchildren…
On October 23, 2024, Rosatom Technical Academy and the IAEA signed an agreement to extend the Academy’s status as an IAEA Collaborating Centre in the field of nuclear knowledge management and human resources development and to expand the programmatic areas of collaboration. The Agreement was signed on the sidelines of the first International Conference on…
At the Rooppur NPP construction site in the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (with the ROSATOM Engineering Division being the general designer and general contractor), the reactor assembly has been completed. The work was carried out by specialists from Atomstroyexport JSC, Atomtekhenergo JSC and Rosenergoatom Concern JSC. The reactor assembly process included installing of reactor internals,…
Top executives of the largest nuclear companies and organizations from BRICS+ member states, including Russia, China, South Africa, Brazil, Iran, Ethiopia, and Bolivia, held the first meeting within the framework of the Nuclear Energy Platform being created. During the meeting, which took place at the Moscow Atom Museum, the participants discussed the initiative and outlined…
October 17, 2024, 17:20 The Gazprom Management Committee took note of the information about the ongoing work on implementing the projects for the production and supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG). It was noted that the Company consistently reinforces its positions in this business segment in order to further increase the flexibility and reliability of consumer gas supplies. The large-scale plant within the Sakhalin II project is successfully…
October 17, 2024, 17:15 The Gazprom Management Committee took note of the information about the ongoing efforts for ensuring the technological independence of the processing complex of Gazprom. It was noted that it is an activity of strategic importance for Gazprom to develop the processing of gas and other hydrocarbons in Russia. The Company is carrying out this work with the active use of the Russian scientific and industrial potential. The newly…
October 17, 2024, 17:05 The Gazprom Management Committee took note of the information about the operational readiness of the Gazprom Group’s facilities for peak loads expected in late 2024 – early 2025, as well as about the measures necessary to ensure uninterrupted gas supplies to consumers in the winter period. It was noted that, in 2024, the usual diagnostic and repair works at the facilities, as well as the filling of underground…
On October 16, 2024, a meeting was held between Alexey Likhachev, Director General of ROSATOM, and Aleksandar Vulin, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia. During the meeting, the parties discussed the issues of expanding cooperation in the field of non-energy use of nuclear technologies, attracting Serbian companies to implement projects in third countries,…
October 11, 2024, 19:40 St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024, which took place at the EXPOFORUM Convention and Exhibition Centre starting from October 8, concluded today. More than 34,000 people representing 54 countries (Russia and 53 states of Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America) took part in the SPIGF, which is a record-high number of participants for the forum. SPIGF 2024 also featured…
October 11, 2024, 19:10 A unique multifunctional mobile inspection robot of Russian make was presented at the exhibition of St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024. The robot is designed to carry out routine inspections at production facilities. It is equipped with a gas analyzer and can independently perform scanning to detect methane leaks where required. Another peculiar feature of the new product is its multifunctional platform, which makes…