OREANDA-NEWS. December 14, 2012. Solemn presentation of honorary medals and certificates of merit by the Russian Gas Society (RGS) took place on November 27 in ITERA International Group of Companies’ central offices in Moscow.

Valery Yazev, President of RGS, personally presented awards to top-managers of the Company and thanked them for the invaluable contribution into the development of the gas industry of Russia. He pointed out that ITERA managed to build up a truly professional team of like-minded fellows, which insures a continuous supply of natural gas to one of the largest industrial regions of the country, the Sverdlovsk Region, where enterprises of strategic importance for both the fuel and energy complex of Russia, and other most important industries of the country are located.

Vladimir Makeyev, General Director of ITERA Oil and Gas Company, Gennady Skidanov, Commercial Director of the Company, Boris Urasinov, Head of Department for Subsurface Management, Geology, Oil and Gas Fields Development and Operation, Nail Akhmetvaleyev, Head of Department for Purchase, Transportation and Sales of Gas, Tatyana Korotkova, Head of Business Accounting and Control Department, Gennady Belousov, Head of the Administration Department, Vyacheslav Nazarov, Head of Governmental agencies and Public organizations Relations Department, and many other officers were among awardees.

"ITERA is one of the first private gas companies of Russia which became an example of how a private gas business should look like. It has been making a worthy contribution into social and economic stability of not just our state, but also of European countries within the past twenty years. Nowadays, having signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement with the oil company Rosneft, ITERA strengthened its market positions at home and confirmed again its rank of the most reliable supplier of natural gas to all categories of consumers", - Valery Yazev stressed.