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| Gazprom is one of the world’s largest energy companies. Its major business lines are geological exploration, production, transportation, storage, processing and marketing of hydrocarbons as well as generation and marketing of heat and electric power. Gazprom Group possesses the world’s largest natural gas reserves. As of December 31, 2008 the Group’s A+B+C1 resources were estimated at 33.1 trillion cubic meters. According to the international PRMS standards the Group’s proven and probable hydrocarbon reserves are estimated at 27.3 billion tons of fuel equivalent and valued at USD 230.1 billion.
With 17 per cent of the global gas production, Gazprom Group is the leader among the world’s oil and gas companies. In 2008 Gazprom Group produced 549.7 billion cubic meters of gas.
Gazprom owns the world’s largest gas transmission system capable of uninterrupted and long-distance gas delivery to Russian consumers and abroad. Gazprom gas trunklines stretch 159.5 thousand km. The Company’s 165 gas distribution companies maintain 445.3 thousand km of gas distribution pipelines and secure transportation of 164.3 billion cubic meters of natural gas.
Gazprom exports gas to the countries within and beyond the FSU, and continues reinforcing its positions on conventional international markets. In 2008 the Company sold 184.4 billion cubic meters of gas to European countries along with 96.5 billion cubic meters to the CIS and Baltic states.
Gazprom is implementing a staged strategy of expanding its presence on the liquefied natural gas (LNG) market. In 2005 Gazprom supplied its first LNG cargo to the USA, in 2006 – to the Great Britain, Japan and South Korea
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| Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev |
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| Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev
Deputy Chairman of Gazprom’s Management Committee, Director General of OOO Gazprom export
Born in 1955, August 14
Science degree: PhD (Economics)
Graduated from the Moscow Physics and Technology Institute in 1978
Profession: automated control systems
State and the Gas Industry awards, and honorary titles:
2001 — Acting Member of the International Academy of Investments and Construction Economics
1978–1989 — Employee of the Foreign Economic Relations Department of the Moscow Institute for Global Economy and Foreign Relations Research (IMEMO) of the USSR Academy of Sciences, later on — Senior Researcher, Acting Leader of the Group, Secretary for the Complex Program of Scientific and Technological Progress (USSR Academy of Sciences and USSR GKNT), Moscow
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