Gazprom

Gazprom (Cyrillic ???????, sometimes transcribed as Gasprom) is the largest Russian company and the biggest natural gas extractor in the world. Gazprom supplies almost all the gas needs of central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

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With sales of US$ 31 billion in 2004, it accounts for about 93% of Russian natural gas production and with reserves of 17,800 km?, it controls 25% of the world's gas reserves. After the projected acquisition of the oil company Sibneft, Gazprom, with 119 billion barrels of reserves, would rank behind only Saudi Arabia, with 263 billion barrels, and Iran, with 133 billion barrels, as the world's biggest owner of oil and oil equivalent in natural gas. http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/29/business/gazprom.php

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Russia: The Russian Federation (, transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: ???????, transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija), is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of Europe and Asia. With an area of 17,075,400 km? (6,595,600 mi?), it is the largest coun...

Natural gas: Natural gas (commonly refered to as gas in many countries, but note that this is also American and Canadian slang for gasoline) is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane. It is found in oil fields and natural gas fields, as well as—in smaller quantities—in coal beds....