1.4. Contribution to Russia’s Economy
| Indicator | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sales revenue | 7,659,623 | 6,321,559 | 10,241,353 |
| Operating expenditures (excl. impairment loss (reversal of impairment loss) on non-financial assets, depreciation and exchange rate differences on operating items), incl.: | 5,564,173 | 4,977,263 | 6,335,983 |
| social expenses | 45,114 | 40,690 | 38,454 |
| payroll expenses | 749,708 | 807,824 | 840,153 |
For more details on resource base replenishment, see PJSC Gazprom Annual Report 2021
| Item | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Payments to budgets of the Russian Federation, all levels (taxes and other similar payments), incl.: | 2,822 | 2,116 | 3,310 |
| customs duties | 790 | 472 | 1,232 |
| MET | 1,141 | 812 | 1,308 |
| income tax | 309 | 89 | 328 |
| property tax | 151 | 154 | 147 |
Investment Projects
The Gazprom Group’s investment projects have a major impact on the growth of regional economies and substantially contribute to infrastructure development. They also have a considerable social effect by providing jobs for residents of Russian regions.
In the reporting year, the Gazprom Group increased its capital expenditures thanks to the favourable market environment and impoving financials. This enabled the Group to accelerate the implementation of a number of oil and gas projects.
For more details on the Gazprom Group’s investment projects, see PJSC Gazprom Annual Report 2021
Process safety advantages
- Automation and limited manning
- Application of equipment intended to ensure safety of well operations and corrosion monitoring systems, and use of soil temperature stabilization system
- Establishment of an in-house fire station
Ensuring gas production for gas supplies to Russia’s Far Eastern Federal District, with a view to export to Chinese markets.
Social effect on the Gazprom Group’s employees:
- In 2020, two dormitories were commissioned, each for 180 people;
- In 2021, two dormitories were commissioned with a total capacity of 350 people and a laundry and bathing facility;
- The facilities constructed improved the living conditions of shift workers and helped create a comfortable work environment.
Energy efficiency and environmental impact mitigation advantages
Application of the equipment complying with the best available technologies (BAT), as reflected in the BAT reference books:
- ITS 29-2017 Natural Gas Production,
- ITS 8-2015 Wastewater Treatment in the Manufacturing of Products (Goods), Performance of Works and Provision of Services at Major Organizations,
- ITS 9-2015 Thermal Waste Treatment (Waste Incineration)
Positive social effect (infrastructure, housing), including for personnel
Ensuring gas production for gas supplies to Russia’s Far Eastern Federal District, with a view to export to Chinese markets.
Social effect on local communities:
In 2021, Gazprom opened a Sports and Fitness Center in Znamenka Village, Zhigalovsky District, Irkutsk Region, and an SRC facility with an ice rink and a cross—functional games hall in Tulun. A new kindergarten and school for 110 kids was commissioned in Bolshoye Goloustnoye Settlement of Irkutsk District. The following social facilities are to be constructed in Zhigalovo Settlement:
- Secondary school for 520 students;
- Kindergarten for 240 kids;
- Multidisciplinary college for 300 students with a dormitory for 150 people;
- Hospital with a 40 beds in-patient facility and a clinic for 150 visits per shift.
In addition, 2 residential buildings with a total area of 1,965.6 m2 for teaching and medical staff will be constructed.
The construction of the above facilities is estimated at RUB 3.3 billion (preliminary figure).
Construction of the social facilities will contribute to the region’s development.
- Use of underground reservoirs to place the drilling waste in the stable hard-frozen state
- Use of heat-insulated casing pipes that prevent permafrost thawing and help minimize the permissible well spacing and reduce the size of the well pad
- Use of full internal water recirculation systems that eliminate water bodies and soil pollution
- Construction of special crossings through communication lines for wildlife migration
Expansion of gas production on Yamal Peninsula.
Social effect on the Gazprom Group’s employees:
In 2023, the following facilities are to be commissioned: a dormitory for 150 people; a hotel for 30 people; a public block with a canteen, a shop, a coffee bar, a gym and a workout facility. This will considerably improve the quality of life for Gazprom’s employees.
- Use of soil thermal stabilization system and equipping the production string with heat insulated tubing to prevent thawing of wellhead rocks
- Geophysical surveys using the technology that eliminates any gas leakage into the atmosphere
- Use of underground reservoirs to place the drilling waste in the stable hard-frozen state
- Gas treatment by applying the most advanced and sustainable method of low temperature separation with the use of domestic turbo expanders
- Use of full internal water recirculation systems that eliminate water bodies and soil pollution
- Construction of special crossings through communication lines for wildlife migration
Ramping up gas output to supply gas to Russian consumers and international markets.
Social effect on the Gazprom Group’s employees:
The Gazprom Group was developing social infrastructure and constructing facilities during project implementation: 2007 — a dormitory for 321 people and a dormitory for 336 people;
- 2008 — a dormitory for 336 people;
- 2010 — a dormitory for 321 people, a hotel for 63 people.
- 2017 — two dormitories for 175 people, a concert hall for 300 seats, a gym and a swimmingpool, as well as a hospital (in-patient facility and clinic).
- 2018 — a dormitory for 100 people and a community center with a canteen, a gym and a workout facility.
Social effect on local communities:
Since 2010, an Obskaya—Bovanenkovo rail line with a total length of over 570 km has been operating. This improved the transport accessibility in the region and enhanced the quality of life of its residents.
Construction of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline section from the Kovyktinskoye GCF to the Chayandinskoye OGCF, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Irkutsk Region
Energy efficiency and environmental impact mitigation advantages
- Use of autonomous energy sources based on RES
- Regular environmental monitoring and control
- Use of rapidly deployable self-propelled bridges to preserve the ecosystem
- Environmental improvement in settlements by way of coal-togas power plant conversion
- Installing at compressor stations the energy-saving equipment with improved efficiency to increase the energy efficiency of gas transportation, as well as with low emissions and a significant service life
- Use of domestic steel pipes with smooth inner coating reduces energy consumption for gas transportation
Process safety advantages
- Automation and limited manning
- Automated welding and triple inspection of welds to prevent accidents
Positive social effect (infrastructure, housing), including for personnel
- Social and economic development of the Far East
- Gas transportation from the Chayandinskoye OGCF and the Kovyktinskoye GCF for gas supplies to Russia’s Far Eastern Federal District, with a view to export to Chinese markets
- Development of state-of-the-art gas processing and gas-tochemicals technologies
Sakhalin — Khabarovsk — Vladivostok gas trunkline (including trunkline expansion from Komsomolsk—on—Amur to Khabarovsk) Sakhalin Region, Khabarovsk Territory, Primorye Territory
- Environmental improvement in settlements by way of coalto-gas power plant conversion
- Installing at compressor stations the energy-saving equipment with improved efficiency to increase the energy efficiency of gas transportation, as well as with low emissions and a significant service life
- Use of domestic steel pipes with smooth inner coating reduces energy consumption for gas transportation
- Regular environmental monitoring and control
Positive social effect (infrastructure, housing), including for personnel
- Ensuring reliable gas supplies to consumers in the Sakhalin Region, Primorye Territory, and Khabarovsk Territory
- Increasing gas supplies to Russian consumers via the trunkline
- Gas exports
Energy efficiency and environmental impact mitigation advantages
- Running all engineering processes and operations in a closed tight system
- Process units equipped with an advanced monitoring, management and automation system and an excellent emergency shutdown system ensure safe operation and minimize the likelihood of emergency situations, including those related to hazardous emissions and discharges
- Use of shut-off valves of at least leakage Сlass 1 ensures the minimum probability of pollutant emissions
- Application of engineering processes without the use of external cold sources (cryogenic gas facilities)
- Collecting all types of wastewater with their subsequent supply to purification plants for treatment
- During wastewater biological treatment, the use of membrane bioreactors that increase the capacity of treatment facilities without expanding the structure’s area
- Application of waste heat recovery from exhaust gases at Ladoga—32 gas pumping units of the gas turbine unit: boiler water used as heat transfer fluid in the heat supply system is heated by way of recovering waste heat from GPU exhaust gases
Process safety advantages
To introduce safety practices to the support personnel, a system for 3D navigation and positioning (comparable with virtual reality) was developed at the production site of Amur GPP.
Positive social effect (infrastructure, housing), including for personnel
Social effect on local communities:
A project for the construction of Alekseevsky residential neighborhood in Svobodny includes 78 buildings for 1,688 apartments. Currently, 379 employees of the operator got apartments in the neighborhood (12 buildings for 360 apartments). Gas supply to the boiler house and the construction of water purification plants and a communication hub were completed. Daily corporate transport from Alekseevsky residential neighborhood to kindergartens, schools, healthcare institutions, stores, and recreation areas was arranged. In 2022, infill houses for 255 apartments are to be commissioned. Gas infrastructure expansion in the town and heat supply to consumers in the region is being discussed with the local administration. It will considerably improve the quality of life of the Gazprom Group’s employees and their family members, as well as the population of Svobodny in general.
Energy efficiency and environmental impact mitigation advantages
- Development of design solutions intended to preserve the existing ecosystems and the daily routine of the local population surrounding the Gas Processing Facility within the Ethane-Containing Gas Plant
- Running all construction processes, including the construction of production facilities, in strict compliance with environmental, sanitary, fire safety and other applicable standards
- Project development in accordance with all the applicable national standards and principles, including the Equator Principles and the general approaches of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Process safety advantages
- Analyzing industrial safety hazards by using an advanced riskbased approach when designing the Gas Processing Facility within the Ethane Containing Gas Plant. To assess the risk of accidents and mortality, as well as to develop the necessary actions to ensure industrial and fire safety, Gazprom engaged the leading scientific and design institutions of Russia (VNIIPO EMERCOM of Russia, the Academy of State Fire Service of the EMERCOM of Russia, Russian Energy Laboratory, APATIT Center for Professional Development, GL Engineering)
- Use of manufacturing processes and automation equipment, application of cutting-edge and highly efficient emergency protection devices to significantly reduce the likelihood of an accident and eliminate injuries and fatalities of both the employees of the facility and the residents of neighboring settlements
Social effect on local communities:
Living quarter No. 7 with residential and social infrastructure is under construction in Kingisepp. It will significantly improve the quality of life in the town.
Irina Korenkova
Head of Financial and Economic Directorate at Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk
Irina handles the economics of Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk’s social and educational projects, including the development of Amur GPP residential neighborhood infrastructure in Svobodny, foundation of a Gazprom Class at a local school, training of young gas specialists at Amur Region’s educational institutions.
1.4. Contribution to Russia’s Economy "Improving Living Enviroments in Regions of Operation
