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Co-founders
PJSC Gazprom, a global energy company focused on exploration, production, transportation, storage, processing and marketing of gas (including as vehicle fuel), gas condensate and oil, as well as electricity and heat generation and distribution. Gazprom has the world’s largest reserves of natural gas and is the world’s leading gas producer. Gazprom sells gas to Russian consumers and is also the world’s largest gas exporter, supplying over 30 countries. Gazprom is among Russia’s largest oil producers and the country’s leading heat and electricity generator.
Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System (Rosseti FGC UES) was established in 2002 to manage and develop the Unified National Electric Grid (UNEG). The company is a natural monopoly in the provision of services related to power transmission via the UNEG, and is responsible for reliable power supply of consumers in the Russian Federation. The company’s key function is to ensure transmission of electric power from generating plants to electric load centres, including receiving devices of distribution grid companies. In addition, the company transmits power between the energy system of Russia and those of neighbouring countries. PJSC Rosseti operates in 79 regions of Russia.
PJSC Surgutneftegas is focused on hydrocarbon prospecting, exploration and production in three petroleum provinces in Russia: Western Siberia, Eastern Siberia and Timan-Pechora. Its production units use advanced equipment and technologies and are adapted to local geological and climate conditions, enabling the company to perform a full range of required operations independently. As a modern and responsible diversified business, PJSC Surgutneftegas fully meets its obligations to the government, shareholders, business partners and consumers, regularly upgrades its production capacities, uses natural resources sustainably, takes a consistent approach to environmental safety, and actively contributes to the social and economic development of the regions in which it operates.
Chile commenced construction of 105.6 MW WPP with energy storage system
Enel Green Power Chile, the Chilean subsidiary of Enel Group of energy companies, commenced the construction of La Cabana 105.6 MW wind power plant (WPP) located in La Araucania region in the central part of Chile. The power plant will be equipped with the battery energy storage facility for 34.3 MW.
Russian scientists developed new method for breaking oil-water emulsions
The scientists from the V.I. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) developed a new method for breaking field oil-water emulsions into water and oil without specialised chemical agents. It helps to receive feedstock for downstream refining or for sales. The research outcomes are published in the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering.
Clean coal: experiment in low-carbon generation from solid fuel
In March 2023, Japan’s Osaki CoolGen Corporation will complete its experimental project for generating electricity from coal with minimum CO2 emissions, which has been ongoing since 2012 in the town of Ōsakikamijima located in Hiroshima Prefecture in the south of Japan.