OREANDA-NEWS. December 11, 2009. Today the Gazprom delegation led by Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee started a business trip to Novy Urengoy.

The delegation visited comprehensive gas treatment unit (CGTU) No.22 at the second pilot area of the Urengoy oil and gas condensate field, the Achimov deposits. The CGTU commissioning enabled Gazprom to launch its first independent project on gas production from the Achimov deposits featuring a more complex geological structure as compared to the conventional Cenomanian and Valanzhin deposits.

In addition, the delegation visited central oil gathering facility No.1 and a compressor station for associated petroleum gas (APG) utilization in the Urengoy field. Compressor stations commissioning became another important step toward the Company’s strategy implementation oriented at raising the share of APG utilization up to 95 per cent by 2012. Operation of compressor stations makes it possible to additionally provide consumers with APG in the amount of up to 500 million cubic meters per annum and to find ways of application for this kind of fuel.

Alexander Ananenkov held a meeting on hydrocarbons production build-up and the systems for their transmission in the Nadym-Pur-Taz region.

Taking part in the meeting were Yaroslav Golko, Member of the Management Committee – Head of the Investment and Construction Department, heads and experts from the specialized subdivisions of the Gazprom Administration, Gazprom dobycha Yamburg, Gazprom bureniye, Gazprom komplektatsiya, Yamalgazinvest, as well as engineering companies and contracting agencies.

The meeting participants considered the issues relevant to further development of the Cenomanian deposits, bringing onstream the Valanzhin deposits of the Zapolyarnoye oil and gas condensate field, construction of the condensate trunklines and development of the gas transmission system. In particular, the meeting was informed on the progress with drilling additional wells and constructing two CGTUs. The projects implementation will allow increasing natural gas production from the field by 30 billion cubic meters and gas condensate – to 3 million tons per annum. The meeting also addressed broader pre-development of the Kharvutinskaya area of the Yamburg field.

Based on the meeting results the specialized subdivisions of the Gazprom Administration, the Company’s subsidiaries and contracting agencies were entrusted with the appropriate tasks.