Gazprom Promgaz Research Institute of Natural Gas VNIIGAZ, ). They added the research of coalbed methane, development of small hydrocarbon fields and planning of natural gas supply as new business fields of the company. One of the main operations became the schemes for gas supply of many regions of Russia. In 2008, Promgaz was renamed to OJSC Gazprom Promgaz. In February 2013, professor Yury Spector became CEO. In 2014, the company projected the general scheme for gas supply of Kyrgyzstan. In 2015, Oleg Andreyev became CEO. OJSC Gazprom Promgaz was renamed to JSC Gazprom Promgaz (). The company projected the general schemes
Gazprom is Gazprom Export LLC, founded in 1973 and before November 1, 2006 known as Gazexport, which has a monopoly on gas exports to countries outside of the former Soviet Union. The majority of Russian gas in Europe is sold on 25 year contracts. In late 2004, Gazprom was the sole gas supplier to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Finland, Macedonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia and Slovakia. It provided 97 percent of Bulgaria's gas, 89 percent of Hungary's gas, 86 percent of Poland's gas, nearly 75 percent of the Czech Republic's, 67 percent of Turkey's, 65 percent of Austria's, about 40 percent