Gazprom export is the world's leading exporter of natural gas shipping the "blue fuel" to Europe and CIS countries. The company exports gas condensate, crude oil, petrochemicals, liquefied hydrocarbon gases, and other products of the oil, gas, and petrochemical industry; markets gas in new markets, optimizes export flows, and forecasts gas market opportunities; participates in developing and implementing energy investment projects of Gazprom in Russia and abroad; serves as guarantor in Gazprom's investment projects. Our long-term contracts with European gas purchasers are used as the collateral of loans to fund revamping, upgrading, and developing export gas transportation systems in the Russian Federation