Czech company Jihostroj and the Tatarstan Investment Development Agency agreed to build a hydraulic equipment plant in the Alabuga special economic zone, with planned output of 80,000 units per year, 500 million rubles of investment and 50 jobs, launch expected in 2019.

Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has commissioned a new cryogenic air separation unit built at its oxygen shop for 4.2 billion rubles, supplied by Kriogenmash; it has produced 100 million cubic meters of industrial gases.

LMF, a Kaishan company, received a 6.2 million euro advance payment, 30% of a 20.67 million euro contract to supply 16 truck-mounted natural gas pipe evacuation units to a Russian natural gas company. The payment means the contract has officially come into effect.

Siemens was selected as compressor equipment provider for PAO NOVATEK's Arctic LNG 2 project, supplying three feed gas and six boil-off gas compressors for three liquefaction trains, with the third train's equipment partly fabricated locally in Russia.

HMS Group and NOVATEK signed a memorandum on strategic partnership to localize manufacture of compressors, pumps and other equipment for NOVATEK's LNG projects in Russia.

Kazankompressormash has begun construction of a new workshop over 11,000 square meters in Tatarstan to produce large compressors with drive power above 25 MW, employing over 300 staff, with first output planned for 2020.

Gazprom chairman Viktor Zubkov attended the start of construction of a new multi-building compressor workshop over 15,000 sq m at the Kazanskompressormash plant in Kazan. The shop will make large compressors for natural gas liquefaction and is expected to start operating in 2020.

Russia's Fund for Industrial Development approved a preferential loan of 110 million rubles to Atomspetsservis to produce spiral heat exchanger surfaces weighing 10 to 40 tonnes in Volgodonsk. The company would become the only Russian and third global producer of such equipment.

REP Holding signed a contract with AviagazCenter to manufacture and supply seven 25 MW centrifugal compressors with magnetic bearings for the second string of the Ukhta–Torzhok gas pipeline. Delivery is planned for Q4 2018 at the Nevsky plant in St. Petersburg.

Iskra-Neftegas Company manufactured and supplied two GPA-16 gas pumping units for the booster compressor station of the Beregovoye field, operated by Sibneftegas. The units use NK-16-18STD gas turbines rated at 16 MW.

INGK Company supplied a gas pumping unit with a PKU016 compressor plant for a compressor station at the Pyreynoye field for customer Sibneftegas PJSC. The unit compresses natural gas.

Two oil-flooded screw compressor plants were installed at the Yuzhno-Vatlorskoye field compressor station for Surgutneftegas to compress associated petroleum gas. Energas Group of Companies carried out installation and commissioning.

Nevyansk Machine-Building Plant's compressor equipment unit was named the winner of two tenders from Irkutsk Oil Company to supply a modular nitrogen compressor station and three modular gas compressor stations for the Yaratkin field in the Irkutsk region. The announcement is dated 20 October 2017.

Gazprom and MashTEK signed a long-term contract at the St. Petersburg Gas Forum for mass production and supply of gas compressor units by KOSMA Compressor Plant, a MashTEK subsidiary, with first deliveries planned for 2019. The contract covers 100 to 4,000 kW reciprocating compressors.

Sulzer's Russian subsidiary Zulzer Khemtek presented an expanded and modernized machinery plant in Serpukhov on 22 September 2017. Investment in the expansion was about 400 million roubles, and headcount is set to rise to 131 by year end.

Kazan Motor-Building Production Association (KMPO) won a tender to design and deliver 16 MW gas compressors for Arctic Gas Company PJSC in the Yamal region, bidding 3.25 billion rubles. KMPO announced the signed contract on August 1, 2017.

Honeywell Process Solutions will add production lines at its Elster Gazelektronika plant in Arzamas, Nizhny Novgorod region, to make gas measurement equipment and medium- and high-pressure gas regulators for the Russian market.

Severstal selected Hanwha Techwin as supplier of electric compressors for the Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works, with assembly and commissioning included. The project costs 900 million rubles and is scheduled for completion by the end of 2018.

Chelyabinsk Compressor Enterprise has begun work on a new purpose-built production site on 17 hectares in the Krasnoarmeysky municipal district, moving all plant and office operations there. Total investment is 1.2 billion rubles.

Kirovsky Zavod Gazovye Tekhnologii, part of Kirovsky Zavod, has spent 200–300 million rubles on developing and producing automatic compressed gas filling stations and plans another 1 billion rubles over two to three years. The company already holds a contract to build eight stations for Gazprom Gazomotornoe Toplivo.

Chelyabinsk Compressor Plant has moved production from the Traktorozavodsky district to a newly built facility in Krasnoarmeysky district, with over 1.2 billion rubles invested in modernization. Production at the new site started in January 2017.

BPC Engineering signed a contract to manufacture and supply two COMPEX reciprocating compressor stations for the Cryogenmash Laboratory Complex in the Moscow Region, part of a pilot natural gas liquefaction system. Shipment is scheduled for Q2 2017.