At a meeting at Gazprom, Chairman of the Management Board Alexey Miller and Russian Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilev discussed the prospects for developing gasification in the country's regions. Particular attention was paid to new five-year programs for 2026–2030. Murmansk Oblast will be included in them for the first time.

The region is completing the update of the General Scheme of Gas Supply and Gasification. It is planned to sign a new Development Program with PAO Gazprom this year.

The decision to gasify the Murmansk region from the single resource base of Russia was made on the instructions of President Vladimir Putin. A main gas pipeline from Volkhov to Murmansk, more than 1,300 km long, will be built in the region. This will allow more than 80 heat supply sources to be converted to natural gas.

"We are working on this issue in detail. On the one hand, gasification is a serious impetus for the emergence of new industries in the Murmansk Region, namely the processing of the raw materials that we extract today and send for processing, and on the other hand, it is a move away from fuel oil dependence. In addition to the fact that fuel oil is not environmentally friendly, it is also extremely expensive for the budget. We are forced to spend about 10 billion rubles a year from the regional budget to ensure heat supply so that these costs do not result in receipts for northerners. And this is despite the fact that, thanks to the President's decision, we additionally receive compensation from the federal budget. Gasification is fundamentally important," noted Murmansk Region Governor Andrei Chibis, commenting on the President's order.

Gazprom continues to implement a large-scale pre-gasification program across the country. Since the beginning of 2025, more than 81 thousand households have been connected to gas, and in total, more than 850 thousand families have already used the free gas supply.


/ Ministry of Information Policy of the Murmansk Region /