Within the 2nd stage of Gazprom’s restructuring, the Working Group for the corporate governance structure improvement has produced proposals to optimize the Company’s investment activities. Alexey Miller, Gazprom’s Management Committee Chairman today issued a directive to establish an Investment and Construction Department as a core business unit within the parent company. Valery Golubev, Gazkomplektimpex’s Director General, was named as Head of the new Department.

With the Capital Construction and Transportation Department dismissed, Mikhail Akselrod, Gazprom’s Management Committee Member and Head of the former Department, will remain in his post of the Head of Gazpromstroyengineering, a Gazprom subsidiary.

The Investment and Construction Department was tasked with forming an integrated investment chain: investment priority identification; investment underpinning and decision making; investment and procurement planning; coordination with budget planning; the customer’s obligations; the builder’s commitments and supply security. To be planned at an earlier (designing) stage, the procurement process will make it possible to identify certain technological contest-based solutions.

Alexey Miller, Gazprom’s Management Committee Chairman also signed an executive order to appoint Alexander Kozlov, as Deputy Chairman of Gazprom’s Management Committee. Mr. Kozlov will oversee economic activities, health care and agricultural matters. Prior to joining Gazprom, Alexander Nikolayevich Kozlov served as Deputy Head of the RF Presidential Administrative Board.

Previously acting as Gazprom’s Management Committee Member, Nikolai Guslisty has been appointed as Advisor to the Management Committee Chairman and will keep on overseeing Gazprom’s involvement in the Krasnaya Polyana alpine skiing resort construction.

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