Memorandum signed to expand Banatski Dvor underground gas storage facility in Serbia

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Release January 17, 2019, 18:45 Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Dusan Bajatovic, Director General of Srbijagas, signed today in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, a Memorandum of Understanding on the advancement of the expansion project for the Banatski Dvor underground gas storage (UGS) facility. The signing ceremony took place in the presence of Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, and Aleksandar Vucic, President of the…

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TVEL Fuel Company of ROSATOM Supplied Nuclear Fuel Components for Research Reactor in Egypt

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TVEL Fuel Company of ROSATOM has supplied a range of nuclear fuel components for ETTR-2 research reactor in Egypt. The items were manufactured by Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant (NCCP PJSC, an enterprise of TVEL Fuel Company), which is the key Russian producer of nuclear fuel for research reactors. The shipments have been carried out under…

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Rosneft Deutschland successfully started direct marketing operations

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Rosneft Deutschland GmbH, a Rosneft subsidiary, started direct  marketing operations in order to increase the efficiency.  The company implemented marketing of all refined products produced by Rosneft Deutschland at three refineries in Germany where the company is a shareholder.  The products range includes gasoline, diesel, heating oil, jet fuel, LPG, bitumen, fuel oil and petrochemical…

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Rosneft Completes Development of Its Own Geomechanics Simulator

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Specialists from RN-UfaNIPIneft, a facility of Rosneft’s corporate Research and Development Complex, have completed their work on creation of the first industrial model of RN-SIGMA corporate software solution designed for geomechanics modelling when drilling. The software allows Company’s engineers expanding their application of geomechanics for borehole stability calculation and reducing the risks during drilling of…

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Izhora Pipe Mill to supply pipes for the Europea gas pipelie Polad–Slovakia Gas Itercoectio

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January 15, 2019 Izhora Pipe Mill (IPM, part of PAO Severstal) is to produce and supply over 11 thousand tons of large diameter pipes for the Poland–Slovakia Gas Interconnection project, which will become part of the EU energy infrastructure priority corridor North–South gas interconnections in Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe (NSI East Gas). IPM…

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Vladimir Bukovsky on Women of the Gulag The USSR was a huge zone of human suffering. Inside that zone there was also a hell that contained its powerless slaves—the GULAG. But within that hell, there was an even more terrible hell. Varlam Shalamov — the great writer who lived through the GULAG hell — dsaid…

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TVEL Fuel Company of ROSATOM will supply nuclear fuel for China’s CFR-600 fast-neutron reactor

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TVEL JSC and Chinese company CNLY (a part of CNNC corporation) have signed the contract for supply of nuclear fuel for CFR-600 fast-neutron reactor which is currently under construction. The contract covers the initial loading of nuclear fuel, as well as supplies for refueling during the first seven years of the reactor operation.  New manufacturing…

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TVEL Fuel Company of ROSATOM will supply nuclear fuel for China’s CFR-600 fast-neutron reactor

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TVEL JSC and Chinese company CNLY (a part of CNNC corporation) have signed the contract for supply of nuclear fuel for CFR-600 fast-neutron reactor which is currently under construction. The contract covers the initial loading of nuclear fuel, as well as supplies for refueling during the first seven years of the reactor operation.  New manufacturing…

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Rosenergoatom: In 2018 Russian nuclear power plants set a new electricity production record of over 204 bln kWh

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In 2018, Russian nuclear power plants (branches of Rosenergoatom) set a new electricity production record which is 204.275 bln kilowatt-hours, accrued cumulative output and exceeded achievement of 2017 (202.868 bln kWh) by more than 1.4 bln kWh. The FAS balance over 2018 was fulfilled by 101.46% with the planned indicator of 201.334 bln kWh. Kalinin…

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Rosenergoatom, the NTI Energynet and the CSR “North-West” have entered into a cooperation agreement on the digital electric power development

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The Rosenergoatom Joint-Stock Company, the NTI Energynet and the Center for Strategic Research “North-West” Foundation (the infrastructure center of Energynet) have entered into a cooperation agreement to work jointly on developing the digital (intelligent) electric power in Russia and implementing the Roadmap introduced by Energynet the National Technological Initiative, including the areas of establishing and…

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Christmas Evenings with Denis Matsuev and Friends concerts held in Irkutsk

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Background Gazprom Dobycha Irkutsk, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gazprom, operates gas and gas condensate production and treatment facilities and acts as the design and construction customer for the pre-development of hydrocarbon fields in the Irkutsk Region, with Gazprom acting as the license holder. The Kovyktinskoye gas and condensate field (with Gazprom Dobycha Irkutsk appointed in 2011 as its development operator), along with the Chayandinskoye oil, gas and condensate field…

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Gazprom brings energy security of Kaliningrad Region to new level

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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,…

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

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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…

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Vladimir Putin singed a law on ROSATOM’s powers in Northern Sea Route development

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MOSCOW, December 28 – President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a law defining powers of ROSATOM in development and functioning of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) and adjacent territories. The document is published on the official website of legal information. The document says the state-owned corporation has acquired rights to develop proposals on forming the…

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

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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…

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

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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…

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

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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);…

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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

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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…

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

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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…

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