Company history Of Gazprom Transgaz

Gazprom transgaz Moscow OOO engages in long-distance natural gas transmission and distribution. The company also performs exploitation, maintenance and construction of gas mains, facilities and installations of a gas transmission system, retrofitting and upgrading of equipment and research and engineering development. The company was founded in 1946 and is based in Moscow, Russian Federation. Gazprom transgaz Moscow OOO operates as a subsidiary of Open Joint Stock Company Gazprom.

Gazprom Transgaz Moscow was the first company in Russia to start long-distance gas transmission.
On July 11, 1946 natural gas from Saratov fields came to Moscow. On July 25, 1946 the Head of Glavgaztopprom under the USSR Council of Ministers ordered to reorganize the administration of the Saratov – Moscow gas pipeline under construction into the Gas Pipeline Operation Directorate. This date is considered to be a birthday of Gazprom Transgaz Moscow.
Once the Stavropol – Moscow multi-line gas main system was constructed in 1956, the Unified Gas Supply System (UGSS) of Russia was put into operation.
In 1966 the company was awarded the Order of Lenin (the highest state award in the USSR) for outstanding performance.

Gazprom Transgaz Moscow activity area

In 2006 Gazprom Transgaz Moscow was entitled to the supreme award of the Russian Federal Assembly – the State Duma Merit Certificate. The company is also a winner of the Russian National Olympus prize in the Fuel and Energy Complex nomination.
Nowadays, Gazprom Transgaz Moscow is a largest gas transmission subsidiary of Gazprom and a key element of Russia’s UGSS ensuring timely and uninterrupted natural gas delivery to consumers of 14 constituent entities in European Russia (the city of Moscow, the Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Moscow, Orel, Ryazan, Tambov, Tver and Tula Oblasts), domestic market supplies and gas transit to the FSU and other countries.