Key Sustainability Events in 2024

In 2024, PJSC Gazprom met domestic demand by supplying record high volumes of gas, thus underscoring its key role in safeguarding Russia’s energy security. This achievement highlights the Gazprom Group’s resilience to external challenges and its ability to respond effectively to growing internal demand. Early in the year, the Company twice set new all-time highs for daily gas supply within the Unified Gas Supply System (UGSS), hitting the hallmarks of 1,788. 3 mcm on January 12 and 1,81 4.7 mcm on January 13. Summer and fall months also saw record supply volumes. Over the course of the year, the Gazprom Group delivered 395.8 bcm of gas via its gas transmission system (GTS), reaching a new historical high.

PJSC Gazprom continues its large-scale gas infrastructure expansion programs in Russian regions, helping to improve quality of life across the nation and supporting growth in industry and agriculture. In 2024, the Company extended gas pipelines to hundreds of remote communities. Towns and villages with an existing gas network benefited from additional gas infrastructure expansion. Under this program, the Gazprom Group built gas connections from the main pipelines to individual households and boiler stations of medical and educational facilities at no cost to local residents. By the end of the reporting year, the Company had fulfilled 1.4 million additional gas infrastructure expansion agreements.

PJSC Gazprom launched Eastern Gas Supply System, a strategically important project aiming to expand gas transmission capacity in Eastern Russia and ultimately integrate it with the gas infrastructure in the western part of the country. The project will give fresh momentum to the gas infrastructure expansion in Siberia and the Far East, improve the reliability and flexibility of supplies, and support the social development of the regions.

In 2024, PJSC Gazprom began construction of the Belogorsk — Khabarovsk section (approximately 800 km), which will link the Power of Siberia and Sakhalin — Khabarovsk — Vladivostok gas pipelines.

In February 2024, PJSC Gazprom and its subsidiaries extended the General Collective Bargaining Agreement through 2025–2027 ahead of the schedule. This decision plays a key role in maintaining social stability among employees, balancing the interests of the staff and employer, and reaffirming the Company’s commitment to social responsibility.

In the reporting year, the Company developed a Methodology for Managing the Gazprom Group’s Sustainability Risks and Application Guidelines. These documents define categories of sustainability-related risks, outline methods for assessing their severity and likelihood, provide examples of risk mitigation measures, and offer formats for reporting such risks in the Company’s disclosures.

Svobodny saw the commissioning of 12 infill buildings comprising 854 apartments and a dormitory with 85 rooms. In the Alekseevsky residential neighborhood, 36 apartment blocks were built, offering employees of the Amur Gas Processing Plant 1,345 new flats. The same neighborhood benefited from the opening of Gazprom School Svobodny, with some 500 students (grades 1 to 7) attending this educational facility. Furthermore, a kindergarten with an indoor swimming pool for 350 children was commissioned and handed over to municipal authorities.

Svobodny saw the commissioning of 12 infill buildings comprising 854 apartments and a dormitory with 85 rooms. In the Alekseevsky residential neighborhood, 36 apartment blocks were built, offering employees of the Amur Gas Processing Plant 1,345 new flats. The same neighborhood benefited from the opening of Gazprom School Svobodny, with some 500 students (grades 1 to 7) attending this educational facility. Furthermore, a kindergarten with an indoor swimming pool for 350 children was commissioned and handed over to municipal authorities.

In 2024, the Group approved the Procedure for Interaction with Potential Suppliers (Contractors, Service Providers) of PJSC Gazprom and the Gazprom Group Entities, and the Code of Conduct for Suppliers (Contractors, Service Providers) of PJSC Gazprom and the Gazprom Group Entities. These documents set out the rules for interaction with potential counterparties based on the principles of fairness, equality, and mutually beneficial cooperation. The Company also launched the Gazprom Group’s Counterparty Portal and introduced a regulatory framework for rating (ranging), evaluating and monitoring the performance of counterparties in fulfilling their contractual obligations.

The Expert RA rating agency reaffirmed PJSC Gazprom’s governance quality rating at the highest level of A++. gq. Key factors contributing to this success included active involvement of the Company’s Board of Directors and Management Committee in ESG matters, the link between performance against sustainability KPIs and remuneration of the Gazprom Group’s directors and executives, and availability of effective systems for managing labor relations, corporate ethics, and anticorruption compliance.

PJSC Gazprom launched its new Environmental Protection Information Management System (IMS) powered entirely by Russian software. For the first time, a vertically integrated Russian company fully automated all processes related to environmental monitoring, accounting, reporting, and compliance assessment. The system now serves 2,500 users across 58 subsidiaries and divisions of PJSC Gazprom. The Company also launched the Process Safety IMS, which covers the Head Office of PJSC Gazprom and 98 subsidiaries. This system automates special assessment of labor conditions, provision of employees with personal protective equipment, and collection of statistical data.

In 2024, PJSC Gazprom, its subsidiaries and entities adopted several regulations governing corporate medical services, including the Regulation on Medical Care, the Regulation on Sanitary and Epidemiological Well-Being, and the Procedure for Interaction between Sanitary and Epidemiological Experts and Occupational Safety Personnel. These documents aim to establish uniform standards for providing medical services across the Gazprom Group, enhance the effectiveness of infectious disease prevention measures, and help fight occupational illnesses among employees.