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14 meetings of coordination councils and committees, expert teams, and R&D cooperation
leaders, and over 70 business meetings and workshops for experts were organised and held to
review the results of these efforts and to plan further actions.
Given the positive outcome of this collaboration efforts, OAO Gazprom and its partners are
planning to further develop their R&D relations in areas of mutual interest, including:
— helium separation technology in field conditions in Eastern Siberia and the Far East;
— distributed compressing technology to improve operating efficiency of fields at their final
development stage;
— utilisation of gas as motor oil;
— harmonisation of national and international standards and regulations for the gas industry,
including quality of gas supplied; and
— environmental protection, energy saving and energy efficiency.
Cooperation with innovative small and medium-sized enterprises
OAO Gazprom pursues relations with innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as
part of the government’s SME support policy.
Pursuant to Directive No. 867-r On Approving the Action Plan (Roadmap) on Improving the
Access of Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses to Procurements of Infrastructure Monopolies
and State-Owned Companies of the Russian Government dated 29 May 2013, and Resolution No.
2304 On Measures to Ensure Maximum Involvement by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises to
Corporate Procurement Procedures of OAO Gazprom’s Board of Directors dated 4 February 2014,
the Group developed the Pilot Programme of OAO Gazprom’s Partnership with Small and Medium
Enterprises.
The Programme was agreed with the Russian Ministry of Energy, the association of small and
medium-sized entrepreneurs (“New Technologies in Gas Industry” Association of Equipment
Manufacturers), and OAO RUSNANO (a development institution) and approved by
OAO Gazprom’s Order No. 7 dated 15 January 2015.
The Programme provides for a range of initiatives designed to fully engage innovative small
and medium-sized enterprises in OAO Gazprom’s activities, expand our relations with innovative
SMEs, and build a network of qualified and responsible suppliers (contractors, service providers)
from among SMEs that supply goods to (or deliver contracts for, or provide services to)
OAO Gazprom.
In 2014, OAO Gazprom started building a “single-window” (one-stop) system to streamline its
relations with SMEs, and enhance transparency and predictability of business processes related
to admission of innovative products to be rolled out in OAO Gazprom.
Relations with innovative SMEs are developed in close contact with OAO RUSNANO,
a government-owned development institution. The parties are implementing a programme
to boost the demand for innovative and, inter alia, nanotech products in the gas industry.
The following initiatives were implemented under this Programme in 2014:
— assessment of innovative SME products’ compliance with the corporate requirements;
— development of technical and regulatory documents to use such products in OAO Gazprom’s
operations; and
— pilot projects to introduce innovative resource-saving and industrial safety equipment and
technologies.
OAO Gazprom Annual Report 2014