Gazprom Promgaz Gazprom Promgaz Joint Stock Company Gazprom Promgaz (, abbreviated JSC Gazprom Promgaz, (), ) is a Russian company that specializes in structural engineering, design, research, heating, the electric power market, and other services related to natural gas. The company is a research institute of Gazprom and was established in 1949. The headquarters of the company are in Moscow. Gazprom Promgaz has branches in Vidnoye (Moscow Oblast), Novokuznetsk (Kemerovo Oblast), Oryol, Saint Petersburg, Ufa, Stavropol, Astrakhan (Russia), Minsk (Belarus), and Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan). Gazprom Promgaz has also an associated company, Ltd "Kamensk Plant of Gas Equipment" () in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky (Rostov Oblast). The
Gazprom that if supplies were cut, it would deny Gazprom access to its pipelines, which would impair gas transportation to Europe. However, on 1 January 2007, just a few hours before the deadline, Belarus and Gazprom signed a last-minute agreement. Under the agreement, Belarus undertook to pay $100 per 1,000 cubic metre in 2007. The agreement also allowed Gazprom to purchase 50 percent of the shares in Beltransgaz, the Belarusian pipeline network. Immediately following the signing of this agreement, Belarus declared a $42/ton transportation tax on Russian oil travelling through the Gazprom pipelines crossing its territory. On 13 March 2008, after