Salekhard hosted a meeting dedicated to the Sci-Tech Cooperation Agreement between Gazprom and YaNAO as well as the 2nd workshop on the crucial issues of hydrocarbons development on the Yamal Peninsula and adjacent offshore areas. The events were chaired by Vlada Rusakova, Member of the Management Committee – Head of the Strategic Development Department of Gazprom and Vladimir Vladimirov, First Deputy Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

Taking part in the above-mentioned events were representatives of the YaNAO Government, the Company’s specialized structural units, top managers from Gazprom VNIIGAZ, Gazprom promgaz, SevKavNIPIgaz as well as specialists from TyumenNIIgiprogaz, Gazprom neft , Gazprom dobycha Nadym, Gazprom dobycha Noyabrsk, Gazprom transgaz Ukhta, Gazprom dobycha Urengoy, Gazprom dobycha Yamburg, Siberian Research and Analytical Center and other entities.

At the meeting the parties signed a Sci-Tech Cooperation Program between Gazprom and the YaNAO Government until 2015. The program provides for three major areas of cooperation in the Yamal region: feedstock base build-up, environmental safety and socioeconomic development.

The first area will include the following activities: updating the data on hydrocarbon resources available in the region, issuing recommendations for geological exploration in promising areas as well as estimating economic efficiency of natural and associated gas processing in the YaNAO.

Environmental safety will be ensured, inter alia, through environmental actions aimed at maximum protection of the Yamal ecosystem during comprehensive development of fields.

The socioeconomic development stipulates that high-efficiency potable water supply systems will be created in the Yamal and Taz regions, the programs for converting municipal vehicles to gas will be elaborated and the concept for comprehensive development of energy supply to the YaNAO and other projects will be shaped.