News
Monday, December 22, 2008
The Abo Rabah field in the Syrian Arab Republic has entered exploitation, supplying gas to the Arab Gas Pipeline.
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008
A consortium comprising Stroytransgaz (consortium leader) and the Russian-Greek joint enterprise Prometheus Gas S.A. signed a contract today with Greek state company DESFA S.A., operator of the nation’s gas transportation system. The 53.4-million-euro contract provides for construction of the Nea Messambria compressor station along the Kulata-Athens gas pipeline in the area of Saloniki, Greece.
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008
A delegation from Stroytransgaz, with Chairman of the Management Board Vyacheslav Makhonin at its head, has completed a visit to Saudi Arabia. As part of that trip, the delegation met with senior management of state-owned oil and gas company Saudi Aramco, customer for the Sheiba-Abqaiq oil pipeline, which Stroytransgaz is now building. Saudi Aramco managers commended the Russian company for the high quality of its work on the pipeline.
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Friday, November 28, 2008
As part of the visit to Venezuela by President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, Chairman of the Management Board of Stroytransgaz Vyacheslav Makhonin participated in bilateral negotiations and in a meeting with President of Venezuela Hugo Chaves.
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Thursday, November 27, 2008
President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, as part of an official visit to Brazil, visited the central offices of the country’s largest state-owned oil and gas company, Petrobras. Joining the president in that visit were Chairman of the Management Board of Stroytransgaz Vyacheslav Makhonin, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of Gazprom Alexander Medvedev, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrei Denisov, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation Vladimir Tyurdenev.
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
As part of the official visit to Peru by President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, which took place on November 22-24, discussions were held between representatives of the Peruvian business community and those of Russian businesses. Chairman of the Management Board Vyacheslav Makhonin was among the delegation of Russian businessmen taking part in those discussions.
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Monday, November 24, 2008
Stroytransgaz has begun welding-assembly work on a new section, the sixth, of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean oil pipeline. This section is situated in the area of Olyokminsk in the Republic of Sahka (Yakutia).
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Friday, November 21, 2008
Stroytransgaz has passed a recertification audit of its environmental management system. The audit examined the conformance of the company’s practices with international standard ISO 14001:2004. After the audit was finalized, Stroytransgaz received a new certificate broadening its range of operations. To construction work in the oil and gas complex and industrial and civil construction, the new certificate adds construction in the electric power industry.
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Friday, November 21, 2008
The Permanent Russian-Syrian Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, and Technical Cooperation completed its sixth session yesterday. Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Igor Schegolev headed the representatives of the Russian side, while Minister of Economy and Trade of the Syrian Arab Republic Amer Hosni Lutfi led the Syrian delegation. Stroytransgaz First Vice-President Leonid Bokhanovsky participated in the intergovernmental commission’s session.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Stroytransgaz has begun work on a new section of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean oil pipeline –the sixth, which is located in Olyokminsk in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The company received a contract for the construction work in late October 2008.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
The first inspection to test conformance of Stroytransgaz’s corporate quality management system with the STO Gazprom standard 9001-2006 was held on October 27-30, 2008. The inspection included the company’s headquarters and subsidiary organizations in Moscow, Moscow Oblast, and Krasnodar as well as the Novy Urengoy gas-chemical complex. Construction at the latter facility is currently underway.
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Friday, November 07, 2008
The Russian-Algerian Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation held its third session on November 6, 2008, in Moscow. Russian Minister of Energy Sergei Shmatko led the Russian delegation, while Algerian Minister of Finance Karim Dzhudi headed the Algerian delegation.
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008
At the invitation of President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, Stroytrangaz’s Chairman of the Management Board Vyacheslav Makhonin and First Vice-President Leonid Bokhanovsky took part in an official breakfast reception in honor of His Excellency Muammar Gaddafi – Leader of the Libyan Revolution.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Stroytransgaz and SIBUR have concluded a contract for preparatory work to expand gas processing capacity in the Noyabrsk region of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Work under the contract includes building the Vyngapurov gas processing plant, a loading rack in the city of Noyabrsk, products pipeline for natural gas liquids, and reconstructing the Vyngayakhin compressor station.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
On October 30-31, 2008, Moody International will audit subdivisions at company headquarters in Moscow and the start-up complex at block №4 of the Kalinin nuclear power plant in Udolmya, Tver Oblast for compliance with international environmental management standards ISO 14001:2004. The company’s current certification is nearing expiration.
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Monday, October 27, 2008
Today, October 27, Stroytransgaz Chairman of the Management Board Vyacheslav Makhonin and company First Vice-President Leonid Bokhanovsky completed a two-day visit to Turkmenistan. The Stroytransgaz representatives took part in official activities devoted to celebrating Turkmenistan’s Independence Day.
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Friday, October 24, 2008
The Russian-Algerian Business Council held its third session on October 23, 2008. The meeting was part of Arabia-EXPO 2008, which was timed to coincide with this anniversary session of the RABC. Arab-EXPO 2008 is the first Russian-Arabian business fair ever to be held. Session participants discussed Russian-Algerian trade and economic relations and measures that might be taken to enhance cooperation between the countries.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
A Stroytransgaz delegation headed by Chairman of the Management Board Vyacheslav Makhonin recently completed a two-week visit to Syria. This was Mr. Makhonin’s first visit abroad since his appointment to the post of chairman. The visit was marked by the signing of a contract to construct an extension of the Arab Gas Pipeline. Director of the Syrian Gas Company Ali Abbas signed the contract on behalf of his company, the customer. First Vice-President Leonid Bokhanovsky and First Vice-President Evgeny Zagorodny were present at the signing ceremony to represent Stroytransgaz.
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008
On October 7, 2008, at Stroytransgaz’s central office in Moscow, Chairman of the Management Board Vyacheslav Makhonin met with one of the world’s largest oil companies, Saudi Aramco from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. During the meeting, the parties discussed issues of current and future collaboration.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
On September 16, 2008, in the Leningrad Oblast Chamber of Trade and Industry in St. Petersburg, a group of specialists met for a roundtable discussion, the “Realization of Projects in the Small-Scale Electric Power Generation sector in the Northwestern Federal District.” Stroytransgaz was initiator of the meeting; publishing company Kommersant and the Coordinating Committee for Development of the Heat and Energy Complex of the Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Northwestern Federal District in St. Petersburg conducted the event.
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Stroytransgaz has begun capital renovations of a gas pipeline in Finland – the Pajari-Valkeala – a 217-kilometer pipeline whose diameter is 28 inches. The Finnish company Gasum Oy is customer for the project.
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Friday, August 29, 2008
During August the international journal Engineering News Record summarized data and gave Stroytransgaz official notice that, per results of 2007, Stroytransgaz was once again included in its list of the 225 largest engineering and construction companies in the world.
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Monday, August 18, 2008
Stroytransgaz has begun constructing a production complex for obtaining ethylene and polyethylene under high pressure.
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Monday, August 11, 2008
Stroytransgaz has begun assembling the metal carcass at the main building of the Yugo-Zapadnaya TEC in St. Petersburg.
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Stroytransgaz has begun work on facilities for new energy blocks No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4 at the Volgodonsk nuclear power plant. Rosenergoatom is customer for the project.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Various Russia mass media, referring to national holding company Uzbekneftegaz, have published information on allegedly serious disagreement between Stroytransgaz and Uzbekneftegaz on realization of a project for liquefied gas at the Mubarekskiy refinery.
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Representatives of Stroytransgaz and Dolphin Energy Ltd. signed a contract for construction of the Taweelah-Fujairah gas pipeline in the United Arab Emirates on July 24, 2008, in Abu Dhabi.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Stroytransgaz has completed construction and assembly work and hydrotesting of the linear part of two sections of the East-West gas pipeline in India.
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Stroytransgaz has fully deployed resources for construction of a cooling tower within a project to expand the Yuzhnaya TEC-22, a facility of the Nevsky branch of TGC-1 in St. Petersburg.
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Friday, July 04, 2008
Russian Federation President Dmitry Medvedev paid an official visit to Turkmenistan on July 4-5, 2008. Representatives of the Turkmen business community and their Russian colleagues held high-level discussions as part of that visit. Stroytransgaz President Victor Lorents, among the delegation of Russia’s top management, participated in the bilateral meetings.
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