Gazprom Neft to start refueling Defense Ministry aircraft at another 11 airfields Aug 1
MOSCOW. Aug 1. (Interfax) - Gazprom Neft subsidiary CJSC Gazpromneft-Aero will refill Russian armed forces aircraft at another 11 of the Defense Ministry's airfields starting on August 1, spokesman for the Defense Ministry's logistics arm Alexander Kolpakov told Interfax.
"CJSC Gazpromneft-Aero executes refills of Armed Forces aircraft at 11 of the Armed Forces' airfields. Starting on August 1, refuels of military aviation machinery at another 11 airfields will be carried out under a similar scheme," he said.
Ground military vehicle refueling has been outsourced in 76 cities, where there are headquarters for military districts, fleets, the army, brigade and military schools, and major garrisons, he said.
OJSC Sovfracht refuels the Russian Navy's ships and vessels in addition to replenishing reserves of fresh water and food at foreign ports in the World Ocean. Forty refuels were performed at foreign ports last year, and 20 were executed in the first half of this year, Kolpakov said.
Pursuant to a Russian government order dated July 4, Gazpromneft-Aero has been identified as the sole aviation fuel supplier and executer of refueling services for Russian Armed Forces aircraft at 11 of the Defense Ministry's airfields - in Akhtubinsk (Astrakhan region), Borisoglebsk (Voronezh region), Ryazan, Yekaterinburg, Kursk, Lipetsk, Orenburg, Pskov, Taganrog (Rostov region), Tambov and Kaliningrad.
Gazpromneft-Aero was previously the sole aviation fuel supplier and refueler of Russian Armed Forces aircraft at 12 Defense Ministry airfields - in Voronezh, Domna (Transbaikal territory), Krymsk (Krasnodar territory), Levashovo (St. Petersburg), Novosibirsk, Rogachevo (Arkhangelsk region), Tver, Ukrainka (Amur region), Khurba (Khabarovsk territory), Chelyabinsk, Shchelkovo (Moscow region) and Engels (Saratov region).
Gazpromneft-Aero has its own network of refueling complexes and is the largest underwing aviation kerosene seller in terms of volume among network operators on the Russian retail market. The company has been refueling aircraft and selling underwing aviation fuel since January 1, 2008. It has been a strategic partner of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in aviation fuel provisions since December 2008.
