Gazprom-AR2014

Performance Results
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Thirteen subsoil licenses were obtained in the reporting year, three of them granted by orders
of the Government of the Russian Federation: for the Khandinsky block of federal significance,
including part of the Kovyktinskoye field (Khandinsky area) in the Irkutsk Region, for hydrocarbon
exploration and production; for the Kheysovsky and Severo-Zapadny offshore blocks of federal
significance located in the Barents Sea, for the geological survey, exploration and production of
hydrocarbons.
The purchase cost of the blocks totalled RUB 18.4bn.
Hydrocarbon production
As of 31 December 2014, Gazprom Group was developing 139 hydrocarbon fields in Russia.
Gazprom Group’s Russian production assets as of 31 December 2014
139 fields in development
7,293 gas production wells
1,119.8 bcm total design capacity of integrated and preliminary gas preparation units
7,604 oil production wells
The Nadym-Pur-Tazovsky oil- and gas-bearing area in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area
(YNAA) remains Gazprom Group’s major gas-producing centre. Oil reserves are developed mainly
in the YNAA and the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area — Yugra (KMAA — Yugra), as well as in the
Tomsk, Omsk, Orenburg, and Irkutsk Regions.
Gazprom Group produces gas in accordance with the current consumer demand. In 2014,
gas production declined by 8.9% y-o-y, to 443.9 bcm (including 7.55 bcm of associated petroleum
gas). The reduction was mainly caused by the halted gas pumping by Ukraine in Q2 2014,
accompanied by declined offtake by Russian and foreign consumers.
Despite the reduction in annual gas production volumes, the Group still had the capabilities
to produce 1,690 mmcm of gas per day even during peak consumption in the autumn and winter
of 2014/2015.
The Group produced 35.3 mm tonnes of oil in the reporting year, a 1.5 mm tonnes increase
against 2013, driven by Gazprom neft Group’s production capacity enhancement at the Priobskoye
field and the Orenburg Region fields (up by 1.4 mm tonnes).
In 2014, 14.5 mm tonnes of gas condensate was produced, a reduction of 0.2 mm tonnes
against 2013. Within Gazprom Group’s share, its affiliates produced 19.2 bcm of gas (up by
5.2 bcm), 2.3 mm tonnes of gas condensate (up by 1.0 mm tonnes), and 18.2 mm tonnes of oil
(down by 0.6 mm tonnes). The Group’s share in the production figures of companies where
Gazprom has investments classified as joint operations made up 1.0 bcm of gas (flat y-o-y) and
8.2 mm tonnes of oil (down by 0.4 mm tonnes). Such performance was driven by the growing
production of gas and gas condensate at OAO Arktikgaz’s Samburgsky License Block controlled
by OOO SeverEnergia, and declining oil production by other Gazprom neft’s affiliates.
OAO Gazprom Annual Report 2014