Gazprom UGS

Sergey Shilov

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Sergey V. Shilov is Director General of Gazprom UGS.

Sergey Shilov was born in 1957 in the town of Gorky. In 1983 he graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, getting specialty in Political Economy. He has a PhD in Economics.

Over an extended period Sergey Shilov took various positions in the Russian Federation Government. Between 2002 and October 2004 he was Director General of Rosgazifikatsiya. Since 2003 – Deputy Director General responsible for capital construction at Mezhregiongaz. In 2005 he was appointed Deputy Director General for relationships with gas distribution enterprises of Mezhregiongaz. In parallel, Sergey Shilov served as Director General of Gazpromregiongaz since October 2004. Since November 2007 he has been Director General of Gazprom UGS.

Gazprom UGS was incorporated on March 19, 2007 as part of Gazprom’s corporate governance structure improvement. The company unified Russian UGS facilities within its structure.

The company’s business purpose is to arrange natural gas storage. Its key businesses are natural gas injection, storage and withdrawal.

The company runs its business in 13 constituents of the Russian Federation; its facilities are located in 18 municipalities. The company comprises 22 branches including 16 directorates for underground gas storage, 4 directorates for rescue & recovery and wells workover operations, as well as a number of supporting subdivisions. The company employs more than 6,000 people.

Gazprom UGS operates 25 UGS facilities situated in the Russian Federation with the total volume of commercial gas of 63.5 billion cubic meters and the potential maximum daily send-out of up to 608 million cubic meters by the withdrawal season start-up.

As part of Gazprom’s strategy on the UGS sector development until 2030, the company gives priority to maintaining the achieved level of UGS capacities through reconstruction and replacement of outdated and depreciated capacities, accelerated buildup of UGS daily send-out by expanding the existing facilities and building new ones, as well as provision of UGS capacities to undersupplied Russian regions.

Sergey Shilov: “Our strategic goal is to raise the company’s performance by expanding production capacities and streamlining the technological processes of gas storage. This requires investments in upgrading of the infrastructure, renovation of obsolete equipment, application of new technologies, improvement of financial and business operations and enhancement of labor efficiency. Among the short-term objectives are construction of the Kaliningrad, Volgograd and Bednodemyanovsk UGS facilities, expansion of the Kachurinsko-Musinsky complex capacities, as well as reconstruction of the Sovkhoznoye UGS facility and upgrading of gas production facilities at the Stepnovskaya UGS station”.