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Board of OAO Gazprom has recognized that the creation of the test center of pipeline equipment, materials and technologies of OAO Gazprom, the company says.

core business units of Gazprom asked to prepare materials on the participation of Gazprom in the authorized capital of the test center and submit them for approval by the Board ofDirectors.

Taking into account Russia's lack of the necessary test facilities,

as well as the increasing demand for testing technology, equipment and materials for the gas transportation system, in November 2007, Gazprom started

to establish a corporate test center, which includes a testing ground for full-scale full-scale testing of pipes.

The main objectives of the test center will be:

- software testing in research and development efforts

to test the technical requirements for new equipment and technology for pipeline systems;

- software testing as part of research conducted to study the problems of exploitation of the pipeline systems;

- certification of new materials, equipment and technologies for construction, repair and diagnostics of pipeline systems to determine feasibility

and the usefulness of facilities to Gazprom;

- certification testing of generic products supplied to the objects of the company;

- ensuring the conditions for obtaining reliable data and new knowledge about the properties of objects the subjects to determine the optimal product characteristics

and production processes in the normative documents of Gazprom;

- ensuring conditions for the establishment of a unified methodological basis of standardized methodologies and software testing products for Gazprom.
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