XIV International Gas Industry Exhibition “ROS-GAS-EXPO 2010” underway in Saint Petersburg

Oleg Aksyutin, Member of the Management Committee, Head of the Gas Transportation, Underground Storage and Utilization Department of Gazprom addressed the Conference with the speech entitled “Developing Gasification Technologies and Servicing Gas Distribution Facilities”.
He noted that over the last decade Gazprom had pursued the target-oriented policy of consolidating and structuring the gas distribution assets, as well as streamlining the business processes.
Gazprom’s prioritized activities in the gas distribution sector are assuring the reliability and safety of gas distribution systems and raising the business cost efficiency.
In this respect, the speaker said that expansion of activities on updating and developing gas distribution systems required that gas facilities had sufficient reserve funds. At the same time, operating costs for the said purposes are not always fully accounted for in the tariffs of gas distribution companies (GDC) due to legal restrictions on their growth.
Speaking of the gasification and gas supply development in Russia, Oleg Aksyutin reminded that Gazprom had endorsed the updated Concept for the Company’s participation in the Russian regions gasification. The new approaches to the gasification process are applied both at the stage of facilities construction and at the stage of regional gasification schemes elaboration. They are targeted at synchronized development of gas supply, distribution and consumption systems, as well as at the optimized utilization of pipeline, liquefied and compressed gas.
The updated Concept stipulates compliance with Gazprom’s technical specifications for gas distribution systems construction and retrofitting. This significantly promotes application of cutting-edge technologies and equipment and raises operational safety at gas distribution facilities.
In addition, the speaker emphasized that a substantial contribution into technical advancement of GDC facilities would be made by the corporate Technical Development Concept for gas distribution systems, which envisaged adoption of new operating principles and improvement of a system for technical status monitoring, as well as operational risks analysis and forecasting.