In January–May, access to gas provided to residents of cities and villages in 20 Russian regions

The Gazprom Board of Directors took note of the information about the prospects for the expansion of the gas supply and gas infrastructure network in Russian regions through 2030.

It was noted that Gazprom's goal is to ensure the stepwise completion of gas infrastructure expansion by 2030, thus creating the necessary conditions for making the benefits of natural gas – a cost-effective, eco-friendly and comfortable for domestic use type of fuel – available to as many Russian residents as possible.

At present, Gazprom is implementing the 2021–2025 programs for gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion in 72 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The work has already yielded considerable results: in 2021–2023, the possibility of gas grid connection was provided to over 224,000 apartments and households, as well as over 1,000 boiler houses in 1,200 localities. According to preliminary data, as of January 1, 2024, the gas penetration level across Russia reached 73.8 per cent, i. e. 89 per cent out of 100 per cent of the technically possible gas grid expansion nationwide.

Within the localities already covered by the gas grid, Gazprom performs additional gas grid expansion, i.e. lays gas pipelines to the boundaries of private households and to boiler houses of medical facilities and educational entities at no cost to the consumers.

In 2024, Gazprom accelerates the pace of the work on gas infrastructure and additional gas grid expansion in Russian regions. It is planned to bring gas to some 700 localities throughout the year. To that end, Gazprom builds gas pipeline branches with gas distribution stations (GDSs), as well as inter-settlement and intra-settlement gas pipelines, and conducts renovation and technical upgrade of the existing GDSs. For instance, from January through May 2024, a part of said facilities has already been built – gas pipelines have reached cities, villages and rural settlements in 20 regions across Russia.

At present, more than 1.2 million households are provided with the technical possibility of getting connected to gas networks as part of additional gas grid expansion.

In addition, Gazprom is actively engaged in the implementation of the objective set by Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, to extend the additional gas grid expansion program to cover the households in gardeners' non-commercial partnerships that are not connected to gas, but are situated within localities already covered by the gas grid. Currently, the Single operator of gas infrastructure expansion (SO, Gazprom Gazifikatsiya) and regional gas infrastructure expansion operators, in close conjunction with regional authorities, participate in developing the schedules of additional gas grid expansion for the households located in gardeners' non-commercial partnerships.

The Company continues the work to expand the gas infrastructure in a number of regions and localities that are still not connected to pipeline gas. These include, for instance, the Republic of Buryatia, the Murmansk Region, the Transbaikal Territory, the cities of Tynda (the Amur Region), Birobidzhan (the Jewish Autonomous Region) and Krasnoyarsk (the Krasnoyarsk Territory).

The Board of Directors reviewed the information about gas supplies to the Khabarovsk Territory from 2025, as well as to the Kamchatka Territory and the Kuril Islands.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, Gazprom is finishing the design development for and preparing to commence the construction of gas pipeline branches to switch the consumers of the Okha – Komsomolsk-on-Amur gas pipeline (not owned by Gazprom) to the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas trunkline.

The Company continues its work on the expansion of gas infrastructure in the Kamchatka Territory. Design development works are in progress for the distribution infrastructure that will be used for the provision of consumer gas supplies to the Elizovsky District.

The development of the design documentation is nearing completion for the construction of the inter-settlement gas pipeline to serve the boiler houses of the Vilyuchinsky Municipality. The project is being implemented pursuant to the instruction of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In addition to that, Gazprom continues the work on implementing the off-grid gas supply project (based on the use of liquefied natural gas) for the consumers of the Kuril Islands.

The Gazprom Management Committee and the Company's subsidiaries were tasked with continuing the work on the expansion of the gas supply and gas infrastructure network in Russian regions, as well as the efforts for the provision of gas supplies to the Khabarovsk Territory, the Kamchatka Territory and the Kuril Islands.