Gazprom brings energy security of Kaliningrad Region to new level

Release January 8, 2019, 14:40 Photos A commissioning ceremony for an offshore gas receiving terminal and a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) called Marshal Vasilevskiy was held today in the Kaliningrad Region. Taking part in the event were Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, Alexander Gutsan, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District, Anton Alikhanov,…

TPU launched the joint international Master’s Degree Programme «Nuclear Science and Technology» developed with the support of ROSATOM

Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) launched the joint international Master’s Degree Programme «Nuclear Science and Technology» developed in cooperation with the Supreme Council of the Universities of Egypt with the support of ROSATOM.  This is the joint international English-language modular Master’s Degree Programme. The uniqueness of the programme lies in the possibility for students to receive…

Alexey Miller and Mher Grigoryan, Armenia’s Acting Deputy Prime Minister, discuss cooperation issues

Background Gazprom Armenia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gazprom, is focused on natural gas supplies to the Armenian market. In addition, the company transports, stores, distributes and sells natural gas, as well as upgrades and expands the gas transmission system and underground gas storage facilities in the Republic of Armenia. The contract between Gazprom Export and Gazprom Armenia for the supplies of up to 2.5 billion cubic meters of Russian gas per…

Speech by Alexey Miller at conference call on occasion of New Year’s Eve

December 28, 2018 Dear colleagues, On behalf of the Management Committee and on my own behalf, let me wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! It has been a very productive year. Our investment activity has reached its peak. All of our strategic projects have been going at a vigorous pace. The tasks set before the Company have been fully accomplished. In the Yamal Peninsula, we have brought onstream the…

Photography Exhibition “Time of Arctic” Sponsored by Rosneft Opens in Moscow

Photography exhibition “Time of Arctic” has opened on Nikitsky Boulevard in Moscow. The photography exhibition has been organised by Rosneft Oil Company together with the non-governmental development institution “Innopraktika”. The exhibition features unique shots from the environmental atlas “Kara Sea” (joint project of Rosneft and Innopraktika); from seasonal research expeditions by Rosneft (Kara-Winter and Kara-Summer);…

The 1st power block of the Leningrad NPP – the lead one in the RMBK-1000 series – has been stopped following 45 years of safe operation

On December 21, at 11:30 PM, following 45 years of safe operation, the 1st power block of the Leningrad nuclear power plant (an affiliate of the Rosenergoatom Joint-Stock Company, the Electric Power division of ROSATOM) was fully stopped. This was the lead power block in the RBMK-1000 series and the first 1000 megawatt high-power reactor…

Severstal leads steel peers i WWF Russia Top 10 compaies for evirometal trasparecy

December 21, 2018 PAO Severstal (“Severstal”; “the Company”), one of the world’s leading vertically integrated steel and steel-related mining companies, has been rated one of Russia’s Top 10 mining and steel companies for transparent reporting on the enviromental impact of its operations. The rating has been published by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) of Russia…

First power unit of Grozny TPP comes onstream

Release December 19, 2018, 17:25 A commissioning ceremony for Power Unit No. 1 of the Grozny Thermal Power Plant (TPP) took place today in Grozny. Taking part in the event were Valery Golubev, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, Alexander Matovnikov, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District, Ramzan Kadyrov, Head of the Chechen Republic, Denis Fyodorov, Director General of Gazprom…

Rosatom participates in 24th UN climate change conference in Poland

On December 13, 2018 in Katowice (Poland), within the framework of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24), a round table of the Russian Federation “Russian investments for development with low greenhouse gas emissions” was held.  Event attendees included Special Presidential Representative on Climate Issues Ruslan Edelgeriyev,…

Sponsored by Rosneft, Gubkin University Launches Educational Course for Employees of Indian Oil and Gas Companies

The Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas has launched an educational course on “Production Intensification and Enhanced Oil Recovery” for employees of Indian oil and gas companies. The training was organized as part of the cooperation agreement in education and training between Rosneft and ONGC Videsh Ltd. as the coordinator of a group…

Photojournalist from Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg wins national photo contest

News from projects and regions December 18, 2018, 14:30 On December 17, 2018, an award ceremony for the Energy of Modern Russia national photography contest took place at the Ministry of Energy in Moscow. The event was attended by Alexander Novak, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation. The contest was organized by the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation. The jury included heads of Russia’s leading…

Gazprom Transgaz Moscow takes part in charity event

Background Gazprom Transgaz Moscow is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gazprom that ensures natural gas supplies to consumers in 14 regions of European Russia and gas transit within and beyond the former Soviet Union. It operates over 21,000 kilometers of gas mains, transmitting more than 80 billion cubic meters of gas annually. The company has 25 branch offices, including 17 gas pipeline operation centers, 23 compressor stations, 278 gas compressors, 723 gas…

Athletes from Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg win five prizes in snocross race

Background Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gazprom. It operates in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area. The company is focused on gas and gas condensate production. Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg holds licenses for the development and production of hydrocarbons from the Yamburgskoye and Zapolyarnoye fields and is getting ready for commercial production at the Severo-Kamennomyssky, Kamennomysskoye-Sea, Obsky, Chugoryakhinsky, Tazovsko-Zapolyarny and Yuzhno-Parusovy subsurface areas, as well as the Parusovy,…

Sponsored by Rosneft, Piero della Francesca Exhibition Hosts in Hermitage Museum

Sponsored by Rosneft Oil Company, the state Hermitage Museum hosts the exhibition “Piero della Francesca. Monarch of Painting” encompassing the masterpieces of one of the most prominent masters of the 15th century. The exhibition features 11 paintings of the artist and four manuscripts from art collections of Italy, Spain, Portugal and Britain. The exhibition provides…

ROSATOM held workshop on public acceptance of nuclear energy in Mersin

On December 12, ROSATOM organized a workshop on public acceptance of nuclear energy. The event took place in Mersin Museum of Archeology. The workshop welcomed a wide audience of teachers, students, representatives of high educational and environmental institutions, and NGOs. The workshop included presentations given by representatives of ROSATOM enterprises, such as regional center in…

Gazprom and Itochu sign Memorandum of Understanding on Baltic LNG project

Release December 13, 2018, 17:20 A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Yoshihisa Suzuki, President and Chief Operating Officer of Itochu Corporation, took place in St. Petersburg today. In the course of the meeting, Gazprom and Itochu Corporation signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the Baltic LNG project. With this document, the parties confirmed their interest in potential cooperation in the framework of the…

ROSATOM became a leader of RSPP Sustainable Development Indexes rating

ROSATOM again has become a leader of RSPP (Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs) Sustainable Development Indexes rating. These indexes evaluate achievements of companies in sustainable development, corporate social responsibility and reporting. They were provided on December 11 at the expanded sitting of the RSPP Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility and Demographic Policy “Company’s Business…

ROSATOM Launches Batch Production of MOX Fuel for Fast Neutron Reactor

The first serial batch of nuclear fuel assemblies for BN-800 fast neutron reactor with mixed uranium-and-plutonium MOX fuel has successfully passed acceptance commissioning. The fuel pellets are manufactured from a mixture of oxides of depleted uranium accumulated at facilities of TVEL Fuel Company of ROSATOM, and oxides of plutonium extracted during reprocessing of spent nuclear…

Severstal lauches Techopark to promote cooperatio betwee iovative compaies

December 13, 2018 PAO Severstal, one of the world’s largest vertically integrated steel and mining companies, announces the launch of Severstal Technopark, a facility to enable innovative companies to cooperate and implement and commercialize joint products and technologies. The Technopark’s infrastructure includes a production centre, featuring technically advanced equipment to create new product prototypes. The…

Severstal, RUSNANO ad Widar Reovables opeed Russia’s first productio of wid turbie towers

December 13, 2018 PAO Severstal (“Severstal”; “the Company”), one of the world’s leading vertically integrated steel and steel-related mining companies, RUSNANO MC and Windar Renovables S.L. have opened the production steel towers for wind-driven power plants. A solemn opening ceremony of the LLC WRS Towers, a joint venture of Severstal, Windar Renovables S.L. and RUSNANO for…

Vorkutaugol wis iteratioal evirometal award

December 10, 2018 AO Vorkutaugol, one of the largest coal mining companies in Russia and a subsidiary of PAO Severstal, has won a First Class Diploma in the “Ecology and Human Health” category of the EcoWorld international environmental award. Enterprises and representatives from the scientific communities of 16 countries participated in this year’s competition. Vorkutaugol…

Alexey Miller moderates Presiding Committee Meeting of International Business Congress

Background The International Business Congress (IBC) is an international non-governmental and non-profit organization. The IBC has 122 members, including Gazprom, Deutsche Bank, ENGIE, N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie, J.P. Morgan Bank International, KPMG, Mitsubishi, Mizuho Bank, Siemens, Shell, Equinor, Schneider Electric, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Total, Uniper, Wintershall, Sakhalin Energy, Srbijagas, and others. The IBC’s supreme body is the General Meeting. The 52-member…

Gazprom and Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area sign Cooperation Agreement for 2019

Release December 5, 2018, 18:15 A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Dmitry Artyukhov, Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area (YaNAA), took place today at the Bovanenkovskoye field. The parties acknowledged the strategic and long-term nature of the cooperation between the Company and the region, highlighting the importance of Gazprom’s large-scale efforts for setting up a key gas production center…

Bovanenkovskoye field’s final gas facility and Ukhta – Torzhok 2 gas pipeline brought into operation

Release December 5, 2018, 18:00 Today, an official ceremony was held at the Bovanenkovskoye field to celebrate the commissioning of the field’s third and final gas production facility and the Ukhta – Torzhok 2 gas trunkline. The ceremony was attended by Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, Dmitry Artyukhov, Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, and heads of the Company’s relevant subdivisions, subsidiaries and contracting organizations. Vladimir Putin,…

ROSATOM took part in the IAEA Nuclear Science and Technology Conference

The first IAEA Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Science and Technology “Addressing Current and Emerging Development Challenges” was held November 28-30, 2018 in Vienna (Austria). The event was visited by about 1,100 delegates from 137 states and 15 international organizations. At the conference opening the key speakers were IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano, UNIDO Director General…

ROSATOM completes longevity testing of modified nuclear fuel for NPPs in Finland and Hungary

OKB Gidropress research and experiment facility, a part of Rosatom engineering division Atomenergomash, has finished longevity testing of fuel assembly models with optimized hydro-uranium ratio for VVER-440 reactors. This new modification of second-generation nuclear fuel is developed for the Paks NPP in Hungary and Loviisa NPP in Finland within the contracts between TVEL Fuel Company…

Supported by Rosneft, Doha hosts an exhibition of paintings of the Tretyakov Gallery “Russian Avant-Garde: Pioneers and Direct Descendants”

In the capital of Qatar, Doha, the grand opening of the exhibition of the State Tretyakov Gallery collection of paintings “Russian Avant-garde: Pioneers and Direct Descendants” was held. Rosneft Oil Company is the general partner of the event. The exhibition, organized together with Qatar Museums and coincided with Qatar Russia 2018 Year of Culture 2018,…

Russia and Argentina signed a strategic document, envisaging improved cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy

Buenos Aires, December 1st, 2018 – Russia and Argentina signed a Strategic document on the margins of the G20 summit, confirming their partnership in the peaceful use of nuclear energy.  Alexey Likhachev, Director General of ROSATOM, signed the document on Russia’s behalf; Javier Iguacel, Argentina’s Minister of Energy, signed it on Argentina’s behalf. Both the…

“Wild Edens: Turkey”, a new feature documentary dedicated to the fight against global warming, premieres in Ankara

The premiere of a new documentary “Wild Edens: Turkey”, the second in a series that highlights the issue of climate change, took place in Ankara, Turkey. Focusing on the flora and fauna in the one-of-a-kind natural habitats of Turkey, the programme highlights the unique and delicate habitat of the Kars Wetland, the Caucasus, and the…

Nuclear Industry Suppliers Forum organized by ROSATOM held in Cairo (Egypt)

Nuclear Industry Suppliers Forum organized by ROSATOM and Egyptian Nuclear Power Plant Authority (NPPA) held in Cairo (Egypt) on November 25-26, 2018. Osama Osran, Deputy Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy of Egypt, Amgad el-Wakeel, Chairman of the Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA) and Kirill Komarov, first Deputy Director General for Corporate Development and International…

ROSATOM and its subsidiaries have become winners of the annual reports contest run by the Rating Agency Expert RA

ROSATOM’s companies once again were among winners of the Annual Reports Contest run by the Rating Agency Expert RA (RAEX). Traditionally, the function dedicated to giving awards to winners of the 2017 annual reports contest and publication of results of the rating were held in the framework of the Annual Training Conference “Annual Report: experience…

ROSATOM has piloted an innovative annealing technology enabling life-extension of large-capacity reactors

26 November 2018 (Balakovo, Russia) – ROSATOM has completed the annealing of a large capacity reactor vessel on power unit 1 (VVER-1000) at Balakovo NPP (Saratov region, 900 km from Moscow) for the first time in the world. This unique technology, designed by Russian scientists from National Research Center “Kurchatov institute”, allows to extend reactor…

Severstal’s Corporate Secretary Artem Bobulich triumphs at the Director of the Year Awards 2018

November 23, 2018 Artem Bobulich, Corporate Secretary of PAO Severstal (“Severstal”; “the Company”), one of the world’s leading vertically integrated steel and steel-related mining companies, was a winner in the “Corporate Director/Corporate Secretary” category at the Director of the Year Awards 2018. The Awards are presented annually by the Association of Independent Directors and the…

The Russian Direct Investment Fund and Rusatom Healthcare to partner AAMG (Singapore) in Nuclear Medicine Centre in Malaysia

Singapore, November 14, 2018 – The Russian Direct Investment Fund (“RDIF”), Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, Singapore’s Asian American Medical Group (“AAMG”), and JSC Rusatom Healthcare, a subsidiary of ROSATOM, have agreed to jointly develop a nuclear medicine center in Iskandar Puteri, Malaysia.  The agreement was signed today on the sidelines of ASEAN Summit. The proposed…

Rosatom opened representative office in Japan

On November 12th, a ceremony took place in Tokyo marking the opening of Rosatom Japan, ROSATOM representative office. “Tokyo has historically been among our key foreign partners, our cooperation dating back over 20 years. Rosatom holds leading positions in uranium product exports to Japan, supplying nine of the country’s ten energy companies. Expanding our presence…

Severstal jois iitiative to create a Commo Ecoomic Space betwee Lisbo ad Vladivostok

November 9, 2018 PAO Severstal, one of the world’s largest vertically integrated steel and mining companies, has signed in support of an initiative to create a Common Economic Space between Lisbon and Vladivostok. The relevant document was signed on November 9 in Minsk, during the conference “Eurasian Economic Union: significance, achievements, development prospects”. The working…

Severstal to aouce strategy update at its 2018 Capital Markets Day

November 7, 2018 PAO Severstal, one of the world’s leading vertically-integrated steel and mining companies, is hosting its annual Capital Markets Day in London today. The Company’s top-management will announce an update to Severstal’s strategy, aimed at further strengthening its financial performance, maximising value creation and enhancing shareholder returns. Ahead of the event, PAO Severstal…