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14 ÿíâàðü 2009 ¹ 5 ÌóðìàíøåëüôÈíôî - Would it be fair to describe your company as the most experienced team of professionals working in oil and gas facilities construction in Russia? - Indeed, Stroytransgaz employees are very highly qualified professionals. The backbone of the team was formed by members of the USSR’s legendary Minneftegazstroy. In 1990 a number of its key specialists established Stroytransgaz and, of course, they brought their alma mater’s traditions and management techniques, adapted to market conditions, into the new company. In September 2008 the company celebrated its eighteenth anniversary. Over the years, Stroytransgaz has evolved into a business with annual turnover exceeding 30 billion rubles. It is no exaggeration to say that today Stroytransgaz is Russia’s leading engineering-construction company in oil and gas and energy construction. We provide all types of services to realize large-scale projects – including design, procurement, construction and project management – in turnkey operations. Stroytransgaz has grown into a group of companies comprising construction, engineering, industrial, oil and gas and financial organizations. The group incorporates large machine-building enterprises manufacturing oil and gas and energy equipment as well as design and research institutes. The number of employees exceeds 18,000 individuals. We have branch offices in 11 regions of Russia and in 17 countries of the world. Such domestic and foreign giants as Gazprom, LUKOIL, Rosneft, Transneft, TNK-BP, СonocoPhillips, Saudi Aramco, SONATRACH, BOTAS, DEPA, GAIL, Reliance Industries Limited, Syrian Gas Company and Dolphin Energy are among our customers. Stroytransgaz is the number one Russian company working in industrial engineering and infrastructural construction and is among the top one hundred companies in the world engaged in this area. - What projects has Stroytransgaz carried out in the oil and gas industry in Russia and abroad? - Large companies realize large projects. Possessing extensive practical experience and considerable scientific-technical capacity, Stroytransgaz constructs facilities for the extraction, transportation, storage and processing of hydrocarbon materials in Russia and abroad. ThelargestprojectsinwhichStroytransgaz has been the contractor are the Yamal- Europe, SRTO-Torzhok, Zapolyarnoe- Urengoy, Russia-Turkey (Blue Stream), Samsun-Ankara (Turkey) and Komotini- Alexandroupolis (Greece) gas pipelines, the Kenkiyak-Atyrau (Kazakhstan) oil pipeline, the Zapolyarnoe gas condensate field facilities and the Krasnodarskaya compressor station. State-of-the-art construction technologies, the presence of an extensive fleet of constructionmachinery, aqualifiedworkforce and reliable partners enable Stroytransgaz to carry out large-scale, diverse projects at high quality and on schedule under any climatic conditions. These include facilities for the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean and Vankor-Purpe oil pipelines, infrastructure for the Vankor field and sections of the Kovykta- Sayansk- Irkutsk gas pipeline. Stroytransgaz is gradually diversifying its activities, extending its work to projects in electric power, metallurgy, and petrochemistry. Examples include the Yugo- Zapadnaya cogeneration plant and the Yuzhnaya TEC-22 in Saint Petersburg, the chemical weapons destruction complex in Schuchye and the Sayansk aluminum plant in the Khakassia Republic. Stroytransgaz realizes a range of projects beyond Russia – in Europe, the Near East, Northern Africa and Central and Southeast Asia. At the end of 2007 Stroytransgaz completed construction of the 273-kilo- meter Sougueur-Hadjret Ennous gas pipeline in Algeria. Presently we are reconstructing the 150-kilometer Ouled Djellal-Skikda gas pipeline in Algeria. Experience working in Algeria has been useful in implementing Syrian projects. In December 2005 Stroytransgaz signed its first contracts with the Syrian Gas Company for construction of oil and gas facilities. In January 2008 our company had already completed, in advance of schedule, construction of the 319-kilometer Arab gas pipeline. We have another project with the Syrian Gas Company that is moving forward at full speed: construction of three gas fields and two gas processing plants in a new gas production area, in Palmyra. We have worked successfully in Sudan as well. In 2005 Stroytransgaz was the general contractor for construction of a 369-kilometer section of the Melut Basin- Port Sudan oil pipeline. Stroytransgaz received an invitation from Iraqi North Oil Company to inspect the Iraqi portion of the Kirkuk-Baniyas oil pipeline as the first step toward restoration of the entire system. In the near future, Stroytransgaz will finish construction of the new 217-kilometer Sheiba-Abqaiq oil pipeline in Saudi Arabia. The company is working simultaneously on modernizing the old Sheiba-Abqaiq-1 oil pipeline. In India we have been engaged in a construction of a number of gas pipelines, some of which are completed while others are still under construction. We have also constructed products pipelines and water supply lines running hundreds of kilometers in that country. Stroytransgaz has been building gas pipelines in Finland for more than 10 years. By using a quality management system developed within the company, we have been able to successfully realize projects and earn the respect of our Finnish customers –Neste, Gasum, Yit Yhtyma and UIT Rakennus Oy. - What makes Stroytransgaz competitive? -Ithink,wepossessanumberofadvantages that allow us to compete with Russian and Interview with Leonid Bokhanovsky, First Vice-President, Stroytransgaz Large-scale projects of the big company Oil and Gas