In the first month of 2022 nuclear power plants (NPPs) of Russia (branches of Rosenergoatom JSC, Power Division of ROSATOM) increased electricity production by 3.37% as compared to the similar period of the preceding year. In January, generation was more than 20 bln kWh or 103.81% of the target of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS)…
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February 1, 2022, 14:30 According to preliminary data, Gazprom produced 47.4 billion cubic meters of gas in January 2022, which is 0.5 billion cubic meters (or 1 per cent) more than in the same period of last year. Gazprom ramped up its domestic supplies from the gas transmission system by 3.2 per cent (or by 1.1 billion cubic meters) over said period of 2022. The Company’s gas exports to the countries beyond the FSU…
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February 1, 2022 PAO Severstal has announced an investment in Ekona Power Inc., a Canadian developer of low-carbon hydrogen production technology. According to Ekona Power Inc., in addition to Severstal Ventures, American technology company Baker Hughes (headquarters: Houston, Texas), Japanese trading and investing company Mitsui (headquarters: Tokyo, Japan), and American oil company ConocoPhillips (headquarters: Houston,…
DetailsIn 2021, the revenue from the sale of isotope products from Russia’s Electrochemical Plant (part of Rosatom’s Fuel Company TVEL) increased by 8% year-on-year, to more than RUB1.6 billion ($20m) for the first time. Foreign proceeds from the sale of isotope products on the world market amounted to about $18.5 million. This is not the…
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January 27, 2022, 12:15 The Management Committee took note of the information about the results of the efforts undertaken in 2021 to vaccinate the employees of the Gazprom Group against COVID-19, as well as the status of health & disease control measures implemented to curb the spread of infection at Gazprom, its subsidiaries and entities. It was highlighted that Gazprom continues to pursue a set of mandatory measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Conditions…
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January 27, 2022 PAO Severstal has become the first Russian steel company to join the World Economic Forum’s coalition to promote responsible corporate reporting on stakeholder capitalism. The Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics initiative, sponsored by the International Business Council (IBC) of the World Economic Forum, is part of wider efforts to develop a set of universal…
DetailsTaking place as part of World Expo 2020 in Dubai (UAE), ROSATOM’s thematic weeklong event “Breakthrough Technologies for a Sustainable Future” came to a close on January 24. The event – unprecedented in terms of scale – saw ROSATOM representatives taking part in 18 sessions dedicated to the role of advanced technologies in achieving a…
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January 25, 2022, 14:05 A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Sainbuyan Amarsaikhan, Deputy Prime Minister of Mongolia, took place today via a video link. The parties signed a statement on the results of the consideration of the feasibility study for the Soyuz Vostok gas trunkline construction project. As per the feasibility study, the pipeline will stretch for 962.9 kilometers…
DetailsRussian IT companies working together with ROSATOM and the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation (Russian Digital Ministry) are prepared to expand the international markets presence of their digital solutions and products. The potential for expanding the global markets presence of Russian IT solution was discussed by participants of…
Details20 January 2022, Dubai, UAE – ROSATOM, a global technological leader, has hosted Small Modular Reactors Day, the key event of its ‘Breakthrough Technologies for a Sustainable Future’ programme at EXPO 2020, which is currently taking place in Dubai. The event was held with the participation of ROSATOM Director General Alexey Likhachev, World Nuclear Association…
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January 21, 2022 Severstal announces that Crédit Agricole CIB has joined the steel company’s Climate Memorandum, “Together for a low-carbon Future”. The Memorandum aims to support global efforts to prevent further climate change. The memorandum was signed by Crédit Agricole CIB on 21st January 2022 in Moscow during the Climate Memorandum’s first Steering Committee meeting.…
Details20 January 2022 – As part of the Small Modular Reactors (SMR) Day at the World Expo 2020 exhibition in Dubai, ROSATOM and the Department of Energy (DOE) of the Republic of the Philippines presented a joint action plan to elaborate nuclear power plants (NPP) using the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology through a Pre-Feasibility…
DetailsAt Expo 2020 Dubai, which hosted the Russian Day of Small Modular Reactor Nuclear Power Plants on January 20, 2022, Rusatom Overseas JSC (a company of ROSATOM) and PJSC Seligdar signed an Agreement on the Supply and Consumption of Energy Generated by a Small Modular Reactor Nuclear Power Plant (SMR NPP) to develop the Kyuchus…
DetailsOn the sidelines of Expo 2020 in Dubai, where on 20 January 2022 Russian nuclear SMR technology was presented, ROSATOM and the Ministry of Energy and Industry of the Kyrgyz Republic signed the Memorandum of Cooperation on the construction of small modular reactor nuclear power plants. Under the memorandum signed by Alexey Likhachev, Director General…
DetailsOn the sidelines of Expo 2020 in Dubai, which hosted the Russian Day of SMR NPPs (Small Modular Reactor Nuclear Power Plants) on 20 January 2022, ROSATOM and the management of the Armenian nuclear power plant signed a Memorandum of Understanding to look into possible cooperation to construct new nuclear power units of Russian design…
DetailsThe installation of the core melt localization device, or the “core catcher”, has started at Tianwan NPP Unit 7. The first element of the device – the core catcher casing – has been installed in the design position. The core catcher casing is a tank weighing over 156 tons, with the total weight of the…
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January 18, 2022 PAO Severstal, one of the world’s leading steel producers, announces that Yakovlevsky Mining and Processing plant (part of PAO Severstal) has launched a new loading and storage complex in test mode. This is the final stage of the project, the plant’s largest investment project of the past year. The Company invested approximately…
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January 17, 2022, 14:20 According to preliminary data, Gazprom produced 23.1 billion cubic meters of gas between January 1 and 15, 2022, which is 2.1 per cent (or 0.5 billion cubic meters) more than in the same period of last year. Gazprom ramped up its domestic supplies from the gas transmission system by 3.7 per cent (or by 0.6 billion cubic meters) over said period of 2022. The Company’s…
DetailsThe core catcher casing with weight of 156 t and height of 6.1 m has been installed in its design position at Unit 3 of Xudabao NPP being constructed in China under Russian design VVER-1200. The core catcher is one of passive safety systems, which ensure isolation of the reactor building foundation slab from core…
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January 14, 2022, 19:40 Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director General of the State Hermitage Museum, opened today in St. Petersburg the Peter the Great Gallery, the first part of the permanent exhibition entitled “Russian Culture in the First Half of the 18th Century.” The exhibition is timed to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter the…
DetailsROSATOM, a global technological leader, will host ‘Breakthrough Technologies for a Sustainable Future’ week at EXPO 2020 in Dubai, UAE. The week-long programme, taking place on 17-24 January 2022, will highlight a wide range of technologies and their applications – including the latest nuclear innovations – aimed at improving quality of life and helping to…
DetailsOn December 30, 2021, ahead of schedule, Egyptian Nuclear Power Plant Authority (NPPA) handed over the package of documents to the Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA) which are required for receipt of license for construction of El Dabaa NPP power units 3 and 4 (general designer and general contractor is ROSATOM Engineering Division).…
Details“Final results have been summed up as regards freight volume via the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in 2021. It was 34.85 mln tons,” Maksim Kulinko, Deputy Director of ROSATOM’s NSR Directorate, said. This is nearly 2 mln tons more than in 2020, when 32.97 mln tons were transported. The data has been confirmed by FSBE…
DetailsOn January 1, 2022, Atomenergopromsbyt JSC (part of ROSATOM’s wind power division NovaWind) began supplying wind-generated electricity to DeloPorts (a stevedore asset of Delo Group). The company switched its KSK and NUTEP terminals to electricity completely generated at wind farms. The respective agreement was signed in April 2021 between the parent company of the Group,…
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January 2, 2022 We have received the operational data on the Company’s performance in the year 2021. For Gazprom, it was a record-breaking year. In 2021, we produced 514.8 billion cubic meters of gas. This is the best result in the last 13 years. It topped the 2020 result by 62.2 billion cubic meters. The growth in Gazprom’s production covered the lion’s share of global gas consumption growth in 2021. As usual,…
DetailsIn 2021, Rosenergoatom (part of the Electric Power Division of Rosatom) once again confirmed its status as the largest power generating company in the country: its branches – nuclear power plants generated over 222.436 billion kWh. This volume of electricity generated by the NPP allowed saving more than 111 million tons of CO2-equivalent emissions (if…
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December 30, 2021 PAO Severstal, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated steel and mining companies, announces the approval of its new health and safety (H&S) strategy. The updated strategy is based on a detailed analysis of the current state of the Company’s health and safety management system and reflects Severstal’s focus on the safety…
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December 29, 2021 Dear Mr. President, It is the number one objective for Gazprom to ensure that Russian gas facilities operate successfully and confidently throughout the heating season. At the start of the period of withdrawal of gas from underground gas storage facilities, our working gas inventories totaled 72,638 million cubic meters with a daily deliverability of 847.9 million cubic meters. Both the working gas reserves…
DetailsDecember 2021, El Alto, Bolivia – The highest Center of Nuclear Technology Research and Development in the world by altitude, currently under construction by the Rosatom State Corporation in El Alto, Bolivia, has seen successful testing of its radiopharmaceuticals production line. At the moment, start-up work is nearly complete at the first facilities of the…
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December 28, 2021, 17:15 New city planning initiatives were presented today at the meeting of the Inter-Agency Council in charge of implementing the Agreement of Cooperation between St. Petersburg and Gazprom. As part of Gazprom’s large-scale efforts for the architectural and artistic lighting of historic sites, central streets, and new districts of the city, a new lighting concept for the St. Petersburg TV Tower with the use of kinetic…
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December 28, 2021, 16:55 The modernized turbo generator No. 7 was launched today at the Avtovskaya CHPP of TGC-1 (part of the Gazprom Energoholding Group). Taking part in the event via a video link were Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Alexander Beglov, Governor of St. Petersburg. The Avtovskaya CHPP, which has been active since 1956, is one of the essential energy suppliers in the southwestern part…
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December 28, 2021, 16:40 A meeting of the Inter-Agency Council in charge of implementing the Agreement of Cooperation between St. Petersburg and Gazprom was held today in St. Petersburg by Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee, and Alexander Beglov, Governor of St. Petersburg. The parties reviewed the outcomes of their cooperation in the 2019–2021 period that was aimed at providing reliable gas supplies, implementing thermal power generation…
DetailsTVEL Fuel Company of ROSATOM has launched the new fabrication facility for manufacturing of TVS-K nuclear fuel for PWR reactors at the site of Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant, one of the world’s major nuclear fuel enterprises. The new facility will enable TVEL to supply various modifications of TVS-K fuel to nuclear power plants powered by…
DetailsTENEX, JSC (a company of ROSATOM) took preliminary stock of 2021, with revenue gained by the TENEX Group from its long-established and newly launched business lines exceeding $2.6 billion. “The year of 2021 has been record-breaking for us in terms of the key performance indicators. TENEX Group’s portfolio of foreign orders has reached $22 billion,”…
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Message to the Media December 27, 2021, 15:20 It was noted at today’s briefing that Gazprom’s production complex has been operating in the autumn/winter maximum mode since December 22. This is caused by abnormally low temperatures with daily averages of up to minus 17 degrees Celsius in the areas covered by the UGSS. This is 9 degrees below the climate normal for this period. On the night of December 25 to 26, the temperature in St. Petersburg…
DetailsOn December 24, the concreting of the fifth tier of the inner containment of Unit 2 reactor building of Rooppur NPP (Bangladesh) was completed (General Designer and General Contractor – ROSATOM Engineering Division). It took the specialists of Trest RossSEM LLC 23 hours of uninterrupted work to lay 850 m3 of self-compacting concrete mix. The…
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December 23, 2021 Speech by Alexey Miller, Chairman of Gazprom Management Committee, at conference call on occasion of New Year’s Eve. Esteemed colleagues, dear friends, As per tradition, we take stock of our work at the end of every year, and 2021 has once again turned out to be a record-breaking year for us. New records in production, new records in gas supplies, new records in financial performance. Together, we confidently reaffirmed our…
DetailsRusatom Overseas JSC (part of ROSATOM) and PJSC LUKOIL signed a memorandum of intent on the development of cooperation regarding production and supply of green hydrogen for PETROTEL-LUKOIL S.A. refinery located in the city of Ploesti, Romania. The parties plan to study opportunities for construction of a green hydrogen production unit at the refinery, thus…
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December 22, 2021, 17:40 A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Vagit Alekperov, President of LUKOIL, took place today in St. Petersburg. The parties discussed relevant issues pertaining to their cooperation. Particular attention was paid to the progress and prospects of development operations at the Vaneyvisskoye and Layavozhskoye fields in the Nenets Autonomous Area. In order to implement the project, a joint…
DetailsOn 22 December, on Power Engineers’ Day – the professional holiday, loading of fresh fuel started at Belarus NPP Unit 2 (general designer and general contractor is ROSATOM Engineering Division). At 10:11 а.m. the first fuel assembly (FA) with nuclear fuel was loaded into the reactor core. Totally 163 fuel assemblies will be consequentially loaded…
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December 21, 2021, 19:20 The Gazprom Board of Directors commended the Company’s efforts with regard to investor and shareholder relations. It was noted that the Company continues to effectively develop and strengthen its engagement with the investment community. This facilitates stable capitalization growth at Gazprom in the long term and helps reduce the cost of debt financing. In 2021, as before, Gazprom maintained an open and constructive dialogue with shareholders…
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Background As per the list of instructions of Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, dated May 31, 2020, gas infrastructure expansion in Russia is to be completed in a stepwise manner by 2024 and 2030, and residential consumers must not bear any expenses for the connections to gas distribution networks. In June 2021, a number of important amendments were introduced into Federal Law No. 69-FZ on Gas Supplies in the Russian Federation.…
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December 21, 2021, 19:10 The Gazprom Board of Directors took note of the information about gas supplies to the Khabarovsk Territory from 2025. It was highlighted that work is continuing at Gazprom to provide reliable gas supplies to the consumers of the region. In December 2021, the Company completed the construction and installation works on the expansion of the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas trunkline at the section between Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Khabarovsk. The…
DetailsOn December 20, 2021, the main construction period of the Kudankulam NPP Unit 6 (in the Republic of India) was officially launched through the first concreting in the foundation slab of the reactor building. “The first two NPP power units are demonstrating the sustainable operation at the nominal power level. The power units of the…
DetailsSix fuel assemblies with uranium-plutonium REMIX fuel rods have been loaded into the VVER-1000 core during the scheduled outage at unit 1 of the Balakovo NPP. Each REMIX fuel assembly of the standard TVS-2M model contains only fuel rods with a mixture of uranium and plutonium recovered from spent nuclear fuel (312 fuel rods in…
DetailsOn December 14, the annual seminar for partners and suppliers of the Hanhikivi 1 NPP project was held in Oulu, Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland. The Hanhikivi 1 Business Day 2021 was organized by the Finnish Nuclear Industry Association FinNuclear, ROSATOM traditionally supported the event as official partner. This year’s edition of the event took place in…
DetailsOn December 16-17, 2021, the Director General of ROSATOM Alexey Likhachev, during his working visit, held negotiations with Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary, and visited the construction site of the Paks-2 NPP, accompanied by Janos Süli, Minister responsible for the Paks-2 NPP project, Alexander Lokshin, President ASE JSC, and Alexander Merten, Vice President of…
DetailsARMZ Mining Machinery, LLC (part of mining division of ROSATOM) has shipped the first load-haul-dumper (LHD) powered by lithium-iron-phosphate battery to an external customer in Latin America. The LHD under the domestic Argo brand name will widen the international market of self-propelled mining vehicles. The Argo LHD 140 B that they’ve shipped was assembled by…
Details“BIM – Management”, the international educational and hands-on project of ROSATOM’s Engineering Division has been awarded with a special certificate of the GPM Awards Russia 2021 national competition for professional project management in the area of sustainable development. The project has been implemented since 2020, the training module makes it possible to improve professional competencies…
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December 14, 2021 Dmitry Goroshkov, Director of Sales and Business Development, Energy at Severstal shared the Company’s energy market outlook for 2022 and provided an overview of key achievements in 2021 at an on online media briefing on December 9. In 2021, Izhora Pipe Mill’s share of exports in the order book increased by 11…
DetailsThe Egyptian-Russian Nuclear Energy Forum, organised by Rosatom and the Egyptian Nuclear Power Plant Authority (NPPA), took place in the Egyptian capital of Cairo. The forum welcomed the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Arab Republic of Egypt Mostafa Madbouly and the country’s Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker, as well…
DetailsInternational students from NRNU MEPhI and other Consortium universities of ROSATOM took part in the International Career Day of ROSATOM on December 10, where they received the necessary information about the development of nuclear projects and nuclear infrastructure organizations in their countries, as well as established contact with potential employers. The event was organized by…
DetailsDecember 9, 2021, Büyükeceli, Mersin Province, Turkey – Construction workers have begun constructing the foundation slab for the pump station of Akkuyu NPP Unit 1. Reinforcement and installation of formwork is underway at the site; around 400 people are involved in the works. Pump stations are a complex of facilities designed to supply seawater to…
DetailsMoscow, 9 December 2021: The government of the Republic of Serbia and ROSATOM have signed a General Framework Agreement to construct a Centre for Nuclear Science and Technology (CNST) and an agreement to form a joint venture that will implement the project in Serbia. The agreements were made the day before the Serbian Prime Minister…
DetailsROSATOM has introduced its Supplier Code of Conduct (in Russian). The Code is aimed at setting ROSATOM priorities in the sphere of sustainable development for its suppliers including those in the field of environmental and labor safety, social policy, labor rights, and transparency. Commitment of a supplier to ROSATOM’s Code of Conduct is voluntary and involves…
DetailsOn December 7th of 2021 in Moscow, Deputy Director General for International Cooperation of ROSATOM Mr. Nikolay Spasskiy had a meeting with Minister of Finance and National Debt of Nicaragua, Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Russian-Nicaraguan Commission on trade, economic, scientific and technical cooperation Mr. Ivа?n Acosta, Special Representative of the President of Nicaragua for Relations…
Details7 December 2021 – Taymyr, the nuclear-powered icebreaker operated by FSUE Atomflot, has successfully escorted a convoy of seven vessels (Kumpula, Vladimir Rusanov, Severniy Project, RZK Constanta, Turukhan, Grigoriy Shelikhov and Mechanic Pustoshny) along the Northern Sea Route (NSR). From the western ice edge of the Kara Sea, the ships independently continued their journey out…
DetailsJSC Atomenergoprom won a prize of Cbonds Awards in the “Green Bonds of the Year” category for issue of bond series 001P-01. The award ceremony took place at the 19th Russian Bond Congress on December 3. JSC Atomenergoprom placed the first issue of “green” bonds of series 001P-01 with a nominal volume of RUB 10…
DetailsThe in-situ part of the dismantling of the first reactor pressure vessel of a commercially operated nuclear power plant in Sweden was successfully completed at the Barsebäck site. In the first phase of the dismantling (in-situ), the reactor pressure vessel was thermally cut into rings with a height between 0.9 and 1.8 m, the so-called…
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