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NOVATEK Launches Northernmost GHG Monitoring Station in National Carbon Supersites Network
Moscow, 18 September 2026. PAO NOVATEK (“NOVATEK” and/or the “Company”) in collaboration with the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Arctic Research Center, and the University of Tyumen has launched the northernmost greenhouse gas monitoring station in the national carbon measurement supersites network. The facility is located within a license area operated by one of the Company’s subsidiaries, NOVATEK-Yurkharovneftegas, in the Nadym District of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area.
Situated in the southern tundra, the new station will complement the Seven Larches carbon supersite in the region’s forest tundra, helping to improve the accuracy of the climate change forecasts for the Arctic.
The facility’s core feature is its focus on permafrost. Equipped with modern world-class measurement tools and a temperature measurement well, the station will support the assessment of the tundra ecosystems’ carbon sink potential.
“For NOVATEK, understanding the magnitude and evolution of climate change in the Arctic, where we have our resource base, is strategically important,” says Leonid Mikhelson, Chairman of NOVATEK’s Management Board. “Expanding the network of carbon measurement supersites and conducting climate research will provide a more robust foundation for the design and engineering solutions that we apply.”
The project is a perfect illustration of efficient cooperation between the scientific community, business, and government in pursuance of climate studies and sustainable development of the Arctic.
PAO NOVATEK is one of the largest independent natural gas producers in Russia, and in 2017, entered the global LNG market by successfully launching the Yamal LNG project. Founded in 1994, the Company is engaged in the exploration, production, processing and marketing of natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons. Upstream activities of the Company’s subsidiaries and joint ventures are concentrated mainly in the prolific Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, which is the world’s largest natural gas producing area and accounts for approximately 80% of Russia’s natural gas production and approximately 15% of the world’s gas production. NOVATEK is a public joint stock company established under the laws of the Russian Federation.