OREANDA-NEWS. July 3, 2009. Gazprom Headquarters hosted a regular meeting of the Company's Coordination Committee for Informatization under the chairmanship of Andrey Kruglov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee – Head of the Department for Finance and Economics.

The meeting brought together members of the Coordination Committee for Informatization, heads of Steering Committees for informatization projects, heads and experts from Gazprom's structural subdivisions and specialized subsidiaries.

The meeting addressed the interim results of the following projects execution:
— creation of an Information and Management System for Mineral Resource Base Replenishment and Hydrocarbon Production (IMS MRB) of Gazprom;
— creation of an Information and Management System for Gas and Condensate Transmission (IMS T) of Gazprom;
— modernization of an Automated Dispatch Control System for the Unified Gas Supply System (ADCS UGSS).

The meeting discussed the targets, goals, as well as the functional, organizational and methodological aspects of the projects. Special attention was paid to the information protection, as well as the functional, informational and technological integration as part of the Gazprom Informatization Strategy involving the target information and management systems.

It was noted that IMS MRB, IMS T creation and ADCS UGSS modernization projects were oriented at raising the production management efficiency via application of up-to-date automated systems for planning, operating management, performance monitoring, accumulating full, consistent and timely information required for decision-making at all levels of Gazprom's management, as well as via harmonization and development of the methodological and regulatory basis for the business processes being automated.

Based on the meeting results Steering Committees for informatization projects were tasked to ensure timely implementation of work as prescribed by the Plan for Informatization Strategy Implementation.