On February 27, 2019, Alexey Miller, chairman of Gazprom’s management committee, and Dmitry Rogozin, director general of State Space Corporation Roscosmos, held a joint meeting in Moscow on the prospects for further cooperation. The event was attended by heads of the relevant subdivisions and subsidiaries of the company and the state corporation. The cooperation between Gazprom and Roscosmos is strategic in nature. Specifically, Russia’s Unified Gas Supply System operates with the use of about 500 gas compressor units developed by RPA Iskra (part of Roscosmos).

The parties continue to collaborate on expanding Gazprom’s satellite constellation. In 2019, Roscosmos plans to launch the Yamal-601 satellite with a view of providing the company’s facilities and third-party users with high-speed data transmission channels and satellite communications. Yamal-601 will have the largest bandwidth among Russian communications satellites. In addition, Roscosmos and Gazprom are considering joint work in setting up a spacecraft assembly facility.

Much emphasis is placed on the development of import-substituting equipment for Gazprom. Corrosion-resistant downhole equipment components produced by Roscosmos have been successfully tested at one of the company’s facilities. The corporation is also manufacturing equipment prototypes for subsea hydrocarbon production systems.

Participants in the meeting emphasized the considerable potential for enhancing cooperation and using Roscosmos’s hi-tech solutions to fulfill Gazprom’s objectives.