The top prize in the Best Inventor among Gazprom’s Subsidiaries category went to Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg. Last year, the subsidiary received 13 national patents for promising proprietary technologies and employed more than 40 self-engineered patented solutions in its operations.
The runner-up was Gazprom Transgaz Ufa. Gazprom Transgaz Surgut took third place.
Gazprom Transgaz Ufa and Gazprom Transgaz Ukhta shared the first prize in the Best Innovator among Gazprom’s Subsidiaries category. In 2017, the economic benefit of the innovative proposals submitted by those companies amounted to some RUB 500 million, with the number of submitted and accepted innovative proposals exceeding 5,500.
Second and third places went to Gazprom Transgaz Nizhny Novgorod and Gazprom Transgaz Moscow, respectively.