- CEO
- Leonid Viktorovich Mikhelson
- Sector
- Energy
- Industry
- Oil & Gas Exploration & Production
- Address
- 22-A, Pobedy Street Tarko-Sale Russian Federation 629850
- IPO Date
- Feb 15, 2013
- Business
- PAO NOVATEK (NOVKY) engages in the exploration, production, processing, marketing and export of natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons primarily in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region of Western Siberia, Russia; the company operates 29 fields with commercial hydrocarbon production, processes unstable gas condensate at the Purovsky Plant to produce stable gas condensate and liquefied petroleum gas, and processes stable gas condensate at the Ust-Luga Complex to yield light and heavy naphtha, jet fuel, heating oil and gasoil; marketable products include natural gas, stable gas condensate, gas condensate refined products, liquefied petroleum gas, crude oil, naphtha, diesel fuel, jet fuel, methanol and petrol; additional services encompass transportation, geological and geophysical research, and rentals. NOVATEK, founded in 1994 and headquartered in Tarko-Sale with a main office in Moscow, ranks as Russia's largest independent natural gas producer and second overall after Gazprom, accounting for 12.1% of Russia's total natural gas output in 2024; operations extend to LNG projects including Yamal LNG and Arctic LNG 2 on the Gydan Peninsula, targeting global markets in Asia and emerging buyers like India amid Western sanctions; the company maintains 17.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent in SEC proved reserves as of December 2024, with a 26-year reserve life. In 2024, NOVATEK launched production at the North-Chaselskoye field with annual capacity exceeding 3 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 0.1 million metric tons of gas condensate, commissioned Train 5 at the Urengoyskoye field's gas treatment unit adding 3.65 billion cubic meters per annum, started two small-scale LNG plants in the Moscow and Samara regions to promote LNG as motor fuel, and completed a 24 MW power module at the Utrenneye field; hydrocarbon production rose 3.4% to 667 million barrels of oil equivalent, with natural gas up 2.1% to 84.08 billion cubic meters and liquids up 11.5% to 13.79 million metric tons; total revenues increased 12.7% to 1.5 trillion roubles, while the board recommended a dividend of 82.15 roubles per share.