Gazprom Geologorazvedka carrying out major recultivation activities in Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area
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In Tambey, one of the northernmost parts of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, Gazprom Geologorazvedka carries out recultivation activities for collecting waste left from the Soviet times.
Presently the company has summed up the results of the first stage of the environmental project. 23 hectares of tundra was cleared in the Ob Bay vicinities. Some 900 tons of waste metal, 800 tons of waste wood as well as 400 tons of different household waste was collected.
Seven units of equipment, including dump trucks, bulldozers, motor crane, excavators deployed for collecting bulky waste
“Yamal is our company’s strategic region, we carry out geological exploration activities in the northernmost licensed blocks of the Peninsula. Placing a priority on environmental care, we advanced the initiative of implementing the project for clearing Tambey’s lands of the massive ‘heritage’ left by the Soviet-era companies,” said Alexey Davydov, Director General of Gazprom Geologorazvedka.
Recultivation activities for waste collection started in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area within the Year of Environmental Awareness at Gazprom.
Background
Gazprom Geologorazvedka is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gazprom set up with a view to increase the efficiency of Gazprom’s activities aimed at prospecting and developing new hydrocarbon fields and deposits. The company’s main objective is replenishing Gazprom Group’s mineral & raw material base.
Gazprom Geologorazvedka operates in 57 onshore and offshore license blocks in Russia: in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Irkutsk Region, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, the Sea of Okhotsk as well as the Kara and Barents Seas.
Environmental monitoring and industrial environmental control are carried out at all the Gazprom Geologorazvedka project sites in compliance with the requirements of the federal environmental protection laws and the provisions of the Gazprom Environmental Policy.
Within Gazprom’s general social responsibility strategy, the company takes part in the socio-economic development of its activity region.
The company headquartered in Tyumen employs over 500 people.