Innovative Development

The Innovative Development Program of PJSC Gazprom until 2025Approved by resolution of the Board of Directors of PJSC Gazprom No. 3513 dated December 1, 2020. adopted in 2020 focuses on continuously improving technological and organizational capabilities of PJSC Gazprom to cement its position as a global energy company and a reliable energy supplier. The program covers the Group’s gas, oil, and power generation businesses.

One of the Program’s key principles is implementing and cascading innovative processes from PJSC Gazprom to its subsidiaries and entities, including the development and implementation of their own programs in this area. In accordance with approved methodologies five subsidiaries, namely Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg, Gazprom Transgaz Moscow, Gazprom Transgaz Surgut, Gazprom Transgaz Tchaikovsky, and Gazprom Transgaz Yugorsk, have approved and are implementing their own innovative development programs, while another six subsidiaries (Gazprom Dobycha Astrakhan, Gazprom Dobycha Noyabrsk, Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy, Gazprom Transgaz Kazan, Gazprom Transgaz Krasnodar, and Severneftegazprom) have drafted and are approving such programs.

To deliver on the technological and organizational priorities of the Program, there are relevant R&D initiatives and plans in place at PJSC Gazprom and Group companies, such as Gazprom Neft and Gazprom Energoholding.

The Program prioritizes technological development with a focus on improving prospecting and exploration and enhancing development efficiency, including greenfield, offshore, and unconventional resources. The Gazprom Group also develops technologies to streamline gas transportation and storage, hydrocarbon processing, LNG production, gas marketing and utilization.

• Improving innovation, corporate governance and long-term forecasting, cost and investment management, risk management;
• Feasibility modeling;
• Improving the pricing systems and tariff policy;
• Increasing efficiency in the use of energy, natural, human and financial resources;
• Reducing the cost of products and services;
• Improving labor efficiency;
• Mitigating environmental impacts of operations;
• Improving the reliability and safety of production equipment;
• Improving organizational capabilities.

The Gazprom Group has an advanced innovation management framework in place. It also has a standing R&D Commission, which considers whether and how PJSC Gazprom and its subsidiaries and entities should implement R&D projects based on the principles of transparency, objectivity, and independence.

The Company approved the Regulation on the Introduction of Innovative Products in PJSC Gazprom, Including R&D Results, and the Regulations on Establishing the Standing Commission for Introduction of Innovative Products at PJSC Gazprom.

In the reporting year, PJSC Gazprom started to draft its decadelong Innovative Development Program driven by changes in the geopolitical and economic landscape and the need for Russia to achieve technological sovereignty.

The key goal is to create a prototype of the future development model based on the analysis of external and internal factors, expert assessment, and mathematical modeling. One of the tools to define priority areas was a foresight study, an open forecasting process involving researchers and analysts from various industries.

The study engaged over 200 experts, including 18 and 35 scientists holding Post-Doc and PhD degrees respectively, specialists from PJSC Gazprom and its subsidiaries and entities, along with representatives of corporate research institutions and industry universities. The analysis covered 12 strategic areas, including traditional domains, hydrogen production and helium recovery, with 104 promising technologies identified as a result.

The Company will rely on the findings of the foresight study and other forecasting methods to update the priorities and develop projects under the Innovative Development Program until 2035.

The Group entities engage talented scientists to develop innovative gas technologies. A key tool is an annual contest for the PJSC Gazprom Science and Technology Prize. In 2024, the contest admitted 21 applications for the prize. Co-contractors for declared works were 17 Group entities and 14 third-party companies, while project teams featured 196 members.

In June 2024, the Urengoyskoye field saw the successful hydraulic fracturing of formations using Russian-made equipment. This event represents a milestone in cooperation of PJSC Gazprom, research institutions, and manufacturers aimed at import substitution. In creating the prototype, special attention was paid to quality control and ensuring equipment reliability in real operational conditions.

Anchor universities create targeted R&D programs for the benefit of PJSC Gazprom. Based on such programs, the university can enter into duly executed R&D contracts that cover the topics included in the programs.

Anchor universities engaged by PJSC Gazprom undertake R&D initiatives spanning the entirety of its technological chain. Such collaborative research endeavors amplify the efficiency of technological processes.

In 2024, PJSC Gazprom and the Higher School of Economics ran the first scientific and educational project called A Ticket to the IT Industry. Undergraduate and postgraduate students enjoyed a unique opportunity to expand engineering competencies and gain experience in IT team work using machine learning technologies.

A Ticket to the IT Industry welcomed students from eight universities as well as young talent and scholars from six Group entities, with diplomas awarded to winning IT projects.

The initiative is continuously evolving, enabling participants to grow professionally and unlock their potential in IT.

1. Kazan National Research Technological University;
2. Bauman Moscow State Technical University (National Research University);
3. Lomonosov Moscow State University;
4. National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University;
5. National Research University Higher School of Economics;
6. Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (National Research University);
7. St. Petersburg Mining University;
8. St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University;
9. Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University;
10. St. Petersburg State University of Economics;
11. Industrial University of Tyumen;
12. Ufa State Petroleum Technological University;
13. Ukhta State Technical University.

    Special partners of PJSC Gazprom

14. St. Petersburg University Graduate School of Management;
15. Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping;
16. St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University LETI;
17. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University;
18. Innopolis University.