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- Gazprom gazoraspredelenie Saratov oblast PAO (formerly known as Saratovoblgaz OAO) is a Russia-based utility company primarily engaged in the distribution and transportation of natural gas through regional pipeline networks across the Saratov region. Operating as a subsidiary of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz LLC within the PJSC Gazprom group, the company manages and maintains extensive regional gas distribution infrastructure, ensuring continuous gas delivery to residential households, municipal utilities, commercial enterprises, and industrial consumers. The company operates through several core business segments, offering services that include: natural gas transportation and supply dispatching through low-, medium-, and high-pressure distribution pipeline networks; technical operation, routine maintenance, non-destructive diagnostics, and round-the-clock emergency dispatch and repair services for gas distribution systems, gas control stations, cabinet-type pressure regulation units (ShRP), and electrochemical protection facilities; engineering, surveying, design, and construction of inter-settlement gas pipelines, distribution mains, and auxiliary gas infrastructure; technological connection and grid hookup services for new residential, commercial, and industrial facilities; installation, maintenance, calibration, and inspection of industrial and domestic gas metering systems, gas control devices, and internal gas appliances; as well as comprehensive technical supervision and customer service delivery through a regional network of unified client centers. The company manages an infrastructure asset base comprising over 27,500 kilometers of gas distribution pipelines serving more than 1,300 populated localities and providing infrastructure access to over 13,000 industrial and municipal utility entities as well as hundreds of thousands of residential consumers across Saratov Oblast. In recent operational developments, Gazprom gazoraspredelenie Saratov oblast has significantly accelerated the implementation of the state-sponsored social gasification (dogazifikatsiya) program across the region, executing thousands of technological connection contracts annually and expanding network access to suburban residential sectors and horticultural non-profit partnerships (SNT). The company has also achieved major construction milestones under the multi-year Regional Gas Supply and Gasification Program in partnership with PJSC Gazprom, completing tens of kilometers of high-pressure inter-settlement pipelines and advancing network designs for the 2026–2031 gasification program to connect remote rural settlements, while executing long-term regulatory contracts to fund network modernization and expand digital client service platforms. Founded in 1961 as the Saratovoblgaz regional gas exploitation trust, the company is headquartered in Saratov, Russian Federation, and its shares trade on the Moscow Exchange under the ticker symbol SROG.