ROSATOM and its enterprises took part in the St. Petersburg International Gas Forum, which ended on 11 October in St. Petersburg at Expoforum. An important theme of this year's forum was ensuring technological sovereignty as one of the key tasks set by the head of state as part of the national development goals.
As part of the business part of the forum, an open panel session ‘Technological Leadership: New Horizons’ was held on 9 October as part of a meeting on technological development issues held by Gazprom with Rosatom's support. It was dedicated to the national project ‘New Nuclear and Power Technologies’. The Department of Scientific and Technical Programmes and Projects of Rosatom State Corporation and Breakthrough JSC participated in the preparation of the session. The event was attended by: Maxim Tereshchenko, Minister of Industry and Geology of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia); Mikhail Kuznetsov, Director of the Department of Machine Building for the Fuel and Energy Complex of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade; Alexey Konev, Deputy Director General of the Federal State Budget Institution ‘REA’ of the Russian Ministry of Energy; Alexey Fadeev, Head of the programme for the development of import-exporting products of Gazpromneft-Snabzheniye LLC; Natalia Ilyina, Director for Management of Scientific and Technical Programmes and Projects of Rosatom State Corporation; and others.
During the discussion, the participants discussed the project, the main goal of which is to ensure Russia's technological sovereignty and leadership in the energy sector. In her report, Natalia Ilyina noted that the national project ‘acts, in fact, as an organic continuation of the current comprehensive programme of the state corporation aimed at the development of equipment, technologies and scientific research in the field of nuclear energy use (launched in 2021)’. She emphasised the importance of the construction and commissioning of small capacity nuclear power plants (SCNPs). For his part, Maxim Tereshchenko emphasised that the Sakha (Yakutia) region needs environmentally friendly, reliable and safe generation facilities to supply energy to the population and industry. ‘In this context, ASMMs appear to be the most effective solution to strengthen the energy security of the Far East,’ he said.
Several agreements were signed. In particular, the Rosatom enterprise and the Rusgazengineering company agreed to join forces in the field of automation and ensuring the sustainability of fuel and energy complex facilities. Rusib LLC (part of Rosatom's ACS and Electrical Engineering division) and Rusgazengineering will jointly create and implement automated process control systems (APCS) at fuel and energy complex facilities and ensure their stability and uninterrupted operation. The agreement implies not only the use of complex solutions to ensure sustainability and automation of production processes at enterprises, but also joint development of special digital solutions for JSC Rusgazengineering's projects in oil and gas, chemical and other industries.
A unified stand of Rosatom was presented at the forum, where the state corporation was presented as a global technological leader with a wide range of competences in various fields, as well as a reliable partner in the development and implementation of solutions for technological sovereignty in the gas industry. Rosatom companies presented exhibits in three areas: ‘Energy for the Gas Industry’ (low-power nuclear power plants and energy storage); “Technologies for the Gas Industry” (production, transport, processing) and “Use and Application”. In particular, it demonstrated a model of the PEB-106 floating power unit (electrical capacity - 106 MW, service life - 40 years, earlier the PEB-106 project was called MPEB - modernised floating power unit).