Gazprom Neft will participate in housing construction and building of sports complexes in Yamal

The governor of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Dmitriy Kobylkin and the chairperson of the board of the company «Gazprom Neft» Alexander Dyukov signed the agreement about cooperation in 2015-2017. This is already the third medium-term agreement, which is concluded between the government of the region and the company.

According to the information given to a correspondent of IA «Sever-Press» in the press-service of the governor of Yamal, the agreement supposes development of bilateral relations and extension of mutually profitable cooperation. It will lead to improvement of investment climate, creation of favorable conditions for solving of social tasks and further development of economy of the region.
Special attention in the document is paid to development of social sphere of Yamal. Till the end of 2017 the company «Gazprom Neft» plans to participate in co-financing of building of the stadium with artificial ice in the town Labytnangy and the multifunctional sports and health-improving complex in Salekhard. Besides, the company already participates in housing construction and building of sports objects in the towns Noyabrsk, Tarko-Salye, Nadym and Muravlenko, renders help to medical establishments and kindergartens. Besides, the government of Yamal and «Gazprom Neft» plan to cooperate in the sphere of physical culture and sports, culture and art, to render support to archeological and ethnographical researches in the region. Also the company and its affiliated enterprises will assist to preservation and increase in the level of employment of population in the region, including by means of creation of new working places.
Dmitriy Kobylkin gave his comments on this activity. As he notes, the sides elaborated the constructive scheme of cooperation. Two strategic tendencies exist. The first one touches upon offloading of oil from Novoportovskoye field by sea. It vividly shows active approach of «Gazprom Neft» to the north of Yamal. The second touches upon extending and strengthening of cooperation between the region and the company. The priority in work of the government still stays the same – fulfillment of strategic state tasks and providing of worthy quality of life of people in Yamal. He is sure that the signed document will become one more powerful instrument in achievement of mutual aims, as the governor of Yamal says.
Alexander Dyukov told about plans of the company for 2015, which touch upon social objects of the region. As he notes, the company will continue financing of building of the ice arena, football and athletic arenas in the town Noyabrsk. Building of multifunctional sports complexes is taking place in the micro-district Vyngapurovskiy and the town Muravlenko, a swimming-pool and an athletic stadium in Tarko-Salye is on the stage of building. This is one direction. The program of social investments «Native towns» is the second important direction. Here the company waits for initiatives from population. Inhabitants of Yamal can initiate different social projects directed to improvement of the territory, development of urban environment, projects on improvement of infrastructure of educational and medical establishments. The company will scrutinize them, will select the winner and will allocate finances, as Alexander Dyukov notes.
As we should note, Yamal is one of key regions in activity of «Gazprom Neft». About one third of consolidated extraction of the company is on the account of Yamal. Mature extracting assets are situated in the south of the region, new projects on development of Novoportovskoye and Messoyakha fields are situated in the north (the Yamal peninsula and the Gydan peninsula). Infrastructure for their full-scale input to operation is being created there now. Owing to these fields, till 2020 «Gazprom Neft» is going to extract 100 million tons in oil equivalent every year.