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On July 4, the results of the activities held as part of the Green Spring 2019 national environmental cleanup were summarized at Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk. The company implemented 99 environmental initiatives, and over 2,000 employees took part in the events organized within the Green Spring action.
All 14 regions where Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk is present joined the national environmental cleanup. For instance, the company’s employees cleaned public parks in Barabinsk (Novosibirsk Region) and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and also released fingerlings of chum salmon into the Gur River in the Khabarovsk Territory, while the employees of the Yurginskoye Gas Pipeline Operation Center made birdhouses. The staff of the Primorskoye Gas Pipeline Operation Center continued to plant trees on Gas Workers’ Avenue in the arboretum of the Gornotaezhnaya Station. A range of activities were implemented to clean territories and plant trees.
Within the May-June period, the employees of Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk cleaned over 200 hectares of land, collecting about 130 tons of waste, and planted over 20,000 trees. For the results achieved during the cleanup action, its organizers – the Vernadsky Nongovernmental Ecological Foundation and the All-Russian Society for Nature Protection – awarded the company with a diploma and a trophy cup for commitment, initiative and a considerable contribution to environmental protection.
Background
Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gazprom responsible for the construction and operation of gas transmission systems in 14 regions of Siberia and the Russian Far East. The company operates more than 9,500 kilometers of oil and gas trunklines and transmits over 20 billion cubic meters of gas annually.
The company has 25 branches, including 19 gas pipeline operation centers and 1 pipeline operation center, and operates 9 compressor stations, 1 booster compressor station, 31 gas compressor units, and 128 gas distribution stations.
In 2012, the company was appointed as the customer in the Power of Siberia gas trunkline investment project.
Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk has adopted an Integrated Management System which includes:
- a quality management system complying with the STO Gazprom 9001–2012, ISO 9001:2015 and GOST R ISO 9001–2015 standards;
- an environmental management system complying with the ISO 14001:2015 and GOST R ISO 14001–2016 standards;
- an occupational health and industrial safety management system based on the OHSAS 18001:2007 and GOST R 54934–2012/OHSAS 18001:2007 standards.
The company has upward of 8,000 employees.
