GAZPROM

Full name - an open joint stock company Gazprom.
The industry - oil and gas.
Company website - http://www.gazprom.ru

The share capital - 118 367 564 500 rubles.
Ordinary shares (face value - 5 rubles) - 23 673 512 900.
Price (18.04.2006, MICEX, rub.) - 271.69.
Capitalization - 6 431 857 million rubles ().
Major shareholders:
38.37% - The Ministry of Property of Russian Federation
10.74% - OAO Rosneftegaz ”

Changing the value of shares:
2004 - +98.9%
2005 - +154.0%

About Gazprom.
The world’s largest gas company, engaged in gas exploration and production, transportation and processing, as well as the implementation of gas in Russia and abroad.
Gazprom has the richest in the world reserves of natural gas. Its share in world gas reserves is 16%, in Russia - almost 60%.

In 2005, Gazprom bought the largest Russian oil company - Sibneft, which in 2006 was renamed Gazprom Neft. ”

In December 2005, Gazprom, together with BASF AG and E. ON AG began construction of NEGP (North-European gas pipeline). Nord Stream will link Russia’s Baltic coast near Vyborg with Germany’s Baltic coast in the vicinity of Greifswald. It is envisaged that the first thread of North-European gas pipeline will be put into operation in 2010. Its capacity - 27.5 billion cubic meters of gas a year. It is building a second pipeline threads and increasing the capacity of SEG 2 times - up to 55 billion cubic meters per year.

Gazprom - one of the largest companies in the world in terms of capitalization.
The total number of staff Gazprom is 330 thousand people.

By Yarovoiy.com (About Gazprom)