Speeches
Christmas and New Year greetings
“Let the year 2014 be rich in record highs and achievements in all areas. I wish happiness, well-being, robust health and all the best to you and your families!”
Alexey Miller
Alexey Miller speaks at conference call dedicated to Oil and Gas Industry Workers Day
“Dear colleagues!
I would like to congratulate you on Oil and Gas Industry Workers Day!
Today it is impossible to imagine the global economy without oil and gas, and Russia – without Gazprom. The Gazprom team as well as hundreds of thousands of gas and oil industry workers do their best to make sure that millions of people have everything they need in modern life – gas, heat, electricity and vehicle fuel, and that the economy receives the needed feedstock and energy.”
Alexey Miller
Speech by Alexey Miller at the General Shareholders Meeting
Gazprom implements new projects.
In 2012 an Investment Rationale was carried out and a final investment decision was made for the LNG plant near Vladivostok. The project stipulates building a plant with an annual capacity of 10 million tons of LNG, to be possibly increased to 15 million tons. The first process train is to be put onstream in 2018. Gas from the Sakhalin, Yakutia and Irkutsk gas production centers will be the resource base for the LNG plant.
The Baltic LNG project is in full swing. An Investment Rationale and a comprehensive Action Plan are at the initial stage, a feasibility study of possible construction options is in progress.
In 2012 we enriched our experience in the LNG market through swap deals and other transactions. Gazprom Group sold 22 LNG cargoes with a total volume of 1,440 million tons. Nowadays we supply liquefied natural gas to 10 countries worldwide. LNG supplies from the Sakhalin II project and our LNG supplies as part of trading operations currently amount to 5 per cent of the global market.
Our goal is to account for around 15 per cent of the global LNG market.
Statement by Gazprom Management Committee Chairman Alexey Miller at the Conference “Development of LNG and its Impact on the European Gas Markets”
Within a relatively short period of time LNG has become a highly marketable commodity worldwide, and nowadays it significantly influences the global and European gas markets.
Over the last decade we have observed a fast pace of LNG production and consumption worldwide.
Since 2001 the global installed capacities of LNG production and the demand for this product have risen by 70 per cent. Despite a slight decrease last year, in 2013 the growth will resume and will be sustainable in the mid and long term.
The flexibility of LNG transportation makes it possible to open new untapped markets for natural gas and, as a consequence, contributes to increasing the natural gas share in the global energy mix.
Being the world’s leading gas Company, Gazprom continuously pursues its LNG production and supply strategy.
Alexey Miller
Statement by Alexey Miller, Gazprom Management Committee Chairman at a meeting of the Presidium of the Presidential Council for Economic Modernization and Innovative Development of Russia
At present, Gazprom runs a large-scale Innovative Development Program adopted by the Company in 2011. The two key indicators of the Program efficiency are related to the introduction of innovative technologies for efficient nature management and environmental safety assurance. These are the general energy efficiency indicators manifesting themselves through the reduction of specific energy consumption for process needs and the decrease of specific greenhouse gas emissions as an overall environmental indicator of production technologies and equipment.
The Gazprom Innovative Development Program is a large and multi-component system. We have been consistently implementing this Program for two years. I can say that all basic indicators, including the two mentioned ones relating to efficient nature management and environmental safety, are met. Gazprom gives a high priority to the environmental aspect today. In addition to the Program implementation, we declared 2013 to be the Year of Ecology in Gazprom and planned a lot of events in various spheres of our business.