The Head of Gazprom Neft Management Board Alexander Dyukov and Governor of the Yamalo Nenets Autonomous Region Dmitry Kobylkin have taken the opportunity of the “Sochi 2014” investment forum to sign a memorandum of cooperation on joint initiatives in local environmental protection.
The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region is one of the most significant locations for Gazprom Neft’s operations, producing approximately one third of the company’s consolidated production. The south of the region is the site of mature upstream assets, and the north (the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas) the site of new projects for the development of the Novoportovskoye and Messoyakha fields, where infrastructure is currently being built to allow the fields to be brought into full production. It is precisely these fields that are central to Gazprom Neft’s plans for producing 100 million tonnes of oil equivalent (mtoe) by 2020.
Certification of Gazprom Neft’s ecological management system in 2013 found the company’s performance to be consistent with the requirements of the most demanding of international standards, ISO 14001:2004. The principle of environmental protection and the preservation of natural resources is adhered to by all Gazprom Neft subsidiaries as a matter of course, regardless of their activities.
*The “3R Initiative” is based on the principles of “reduce, re-use and recycle” in the context of natural resources, aimed at achieving “zero waste”.