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Gazprom is the world’s largest gas company and possesses the world’s largest natural gas reserves.
Gazprom’s share in the global and Russian gas production is respectively about 20 percent and 85 percent.
Gazprom owns the world’s largest gas transmission system stretching over 157 000 km. The company exports gas to 32 countries.
The company is owned 50,002 percent by the Russian state.
In 2007, Gazprom entered into agreement with Total and StatoilHydro in the Shtokman project in the Barents Sea. The company also is heavily engaged in the development of new gas resources in the Yamal Peninsula.
Several major gas pipeline project are under planning and development, among them the Nord Stream project stretching across the Baltic Sea.
Gazprom helicopter made emergency landing
13 people were injured when a helicopter owned by Gazpromavia made an unsuccessful emergency landing near Vorkuta Saturday.
The Mi-171 helicopter was flying from Bovanenkovo gas field on the Yamal Peninsula when it made the emergency landing some four kilometers from the airport in Vorkuta in the Komi Republic, reports RIA Novosti.
25 people were aboard, 22 passengers and three crewmembers. The 13 people injured had been hospitalized. RIA Novosti reports that investigators will hold a probe into the incident.
Gazpromavia is one of the ten biggest airlines in Russia. The company operates 140 aircraft, including 34 aircrafts and 106 helicopters.
