OREANDA-NEWS. The Gazprom Management Committee has heard a report on the Company’s energy saving and environmental activities between 2000 and 2005, and the major projections for 2007 through 2010.

Gazprom’s core business units were entrusted with developing and submitting for approval a draft Gazprom Energy Saving Program for 2007 through 2010, a restated draft Environmental Policy and a priority activity list for the environmental protection sector.

The Management Committee ordered to prepare and submit for approval proposals on the creation of the Gazprom Coordinating Council for Environmental Protection Issues.

The Management Committee particularly emphasized that, despite growing gas production and transmission volumes, the implementation of the corporate energy saving policy had resulted in the amount of methane as the main component of the atmospheric emissions remaining practically unchanged.

According to the Max Planck Institute and the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, a weighted average methane emission rate at UGSS (Unified Gas Supply System) transmission facilities and gas export pipelines accounts for as little as 0,8 per cent and does not exceed 0,7 per cent, respectively.