Gazprom-AR2014

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— by Resolution No. 2375 of 27 June 2014, OAO Gazprom’s Board of Directors amended the
Regulation on the Purchase of Goods, Works and Services by OAO Gazprom and Gazprom
Group companies to simplify procurement procedures, including SMEs procurements.
Improving OAO Gazprom’s procurement policies
(Directive No. 2487p-P13 of 24 April 2014 by I. I. Shuvalov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the
Russian Government, implementing the Action Plan on Limiting the Final Price of Goods and
Services Offered by Infrastructural Companies While Keeping Their Financial Strength and
Investment Attractiveness approved by Order No. 6732p-P9 of 11 November 2013 issued
by D. A. Medvedev, Russian Prime Minister)
OAO Gazprom’s Board of Directors issued Resolution on Improving OAO Gazprom’s Procurement
Policies No. 2362 of 10 June 2014.
By its Resolution No. 2392 of 8 August 2014, OAO Gazprom’s Board of Directors approved
an Action Programme on Improving OAO Gazprom’s and its Subsidiaries’ and Affiliates’ Procurement
Policies as approved by the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Ministry of
Energy. A progress report 2014 for the Programme has been forwarded to the Russian Ministry of
Energy.
In its Order No. 443 of 24 September 2014, OAO Gazprom approved its Methodology for
Calculating Ratios for Reducing Procurement Prices for the Most Critical Procurements in 2014
as approved by the Russian Ministry of Energy and a list of the most critical procurements (goods,
works and services) whose prices were to be reduced in 2014.
The methodology was used to calculate reduced prices for the most critical procurements in
2014 which calculation was forwarded to the Russian Ministry of Energy.
Regulating wholesale gas prices
(Instruction No. dm-P13-1196 of 20 February 2014 by D. A. Medvedev, Russian Prime Minister)
OAO Gazprom has prepared proposals on long-term energy pricing polices (as regards gas prices).
OAO Gazprom believes that the gas industry’s long-term pricing policies must focus on
inspiring the reduction of the energy component in the economy while creating appropriate conditions
to develop the gas industry and market relations fostering gas supplies.
(Item 1 of Minutes No. AD-P9-60pr of 29 May 2014, meeting held at the office of Russian Deputy
Prime Minister A. V. Dvorkovich regarding a Russian gas market model and the need to amend
some Russian Government’s gas sale decrees)
Proposals on how to regulate wholesale gas prices until 2020 and gas price range targets until
2020 have been prepared. These proposals focus on setting prices that include reasonable
expenses and margins corresponding to market return on capital deployed or such margins as
ensure adequate sourcing of capital investments to support and develop gas production, transportation
and storage activities.
(Minutes No. A4-26-368 of 4 April 2014, Russian Presidential Commission for Strategic Development
of the Fuel and Energy Sector and Environmental Security; Instruction No. AD-P9-5865
of 31 July 2014 by A. V. Dvorkovich, Russian Deputy Prime Minister; item 1 of Minutes No. AD-P9-149pr
of 2 October 2014)
Jointly with federal executive authorities, OAO Gazprom studied differential gas pricing opportunities
towards regulated wholesale price caps offered to large consumers, including procedures
for applying, and cases triggering the application of, such prices.
OAO Gazprom Annual Report 2014