By: ICN Bureau
Last updated : June 05, 2021 9:43 am
Agreements were signed for creating a unified system for geotechnical monitoring of hazardous industrial facilities
Gazprom has signed multiple hi-tech cooperation agreements with different companies at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2021.
First, a cooperation agreement was signed by Alexey Miller, Chairman, Gazprom; Alexey Likhachev, Director General; State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom; and Dmitry Rogozin, Director General, State Space Corporation Roscosmos.
Gazprom is interested in creating a unified system for geotechnical monitoring of hazardous industrial facilities in Russia. It is anticipated that the system will be based upon the space vehicles created under the Sphere (Sfera) program, which is being implemented by Roscosmos.
It is also planned to employ radar surveillance satellites, which will be manufactured at the under-construction spacecraft assembly facility of Gazprom in the Moscow Region. The system will also be used for the monitoring of ice conditions along the Northern Sea Route the infrastructure of which is operated by Rosatom.
Second, cooperation agreement was signed by Alexey Miller and Yury Borisov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, and Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Yury Solomonov, First Deputy Director General - General Designer, Corporation Moscow Institute for Heat Technology (MIT).
The agreement provides for interaction between the parties in the creation of hydraulic fracturing complexes to be used in the implementation of the current and future projects of Gazprom.
Third, cooperation agreement was signed by Oleg Aksyutin, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee – Head of Department at Gazprom, and Nebojsa Jankovic, Head of the Comita Group of Companies for Russia and the CIS and Chairman of the Boards of Managers of the Main Company of the Comita Group of Companies.
The Program envisages joint efforts to address sci-tech tasks in such areas as the integrity of the unified gas supply system, energy efficiency, energy conservation and environmental protection, new areas of natural gas use, informatization, and automation.
Fourth cooperation agreement was signed by Alexey Miller and Nikolai Shulginov, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation for implementation of digitization projects between Gazprom Mezhregiongaz, Gazprombank, and Rostelecom.
The program asks parties to use their joint technologies, resources, and competencies to develop intellectual automated gas metering systems, information analysis solutions, as well as dispatching and automation systems for production processes.
Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, Nikolai Shulginov, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, and Sergey Tsivilev, Governor of the Kemerovo Region – Kuzbass, entered into an agreement on gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion in Kuzbass, including through coalbed methane (CBM) liquefaction.
Alexey Miller, Denis Manturov, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, and Sergey Tsivilev inked an agreement on the development of equipment and technologies for the construction of wells, production of gas from CBM reservoirs, and subsequent processing and liquefaction of this gas in Kuzbass.