Gazpromneft Bitumen Materials is a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft, specialising in the production and sale of bitumen products. The company currently holds a leading position on the Russian bitumens market.

The company’s key production facilities are based in the Moscow, Omsk, Yaroslavl, Smolensk, Rostov and Ryazan Oblasts, as well as in Serbia and Kazakhstan. The company produces road, construction and roofing bitumens, as well as polymer-modified bitumens (PMBs) and binders (specifically G-Way Styrelf), and a range of bitumen derivatives (mastic compounds, sealants, bridging tapes and more). The company established a dedicated bitumens Science and Technology Centre in 2016, which has since become the first such organisation among Russia’s vertically integrated oil companies offering technological support to the bitumens business. The company is constantly developing new formulations, and further improving technology in the production of innovative binders.

The Transport and Construction Complex Research Institute (an independent non-commercial organisation) is professionally involved in technical regulation for roadbuilding, research into roadbuilding materials, and road-construction technologies.

The Institute has its own modern laboratory equipment on which road-building materials can be tested, not only against current national and CIS standards (as well as European and USA standards), but also in terms of the impact of materials on roads’ operational properties.

Based on the experience it has built up, together with research undertaken and analysis of modern requirements, the Institute develops regulation, provides independent testing and technical oversight services, and certifies road-construction materials, laboratories and specialist training for professionals in the roadbuilding industry.

The Institute’s specialists have been proactively involved in developing technical regulation for the CIS Customs Union, specifically “Highway Safety TR TC 014/2011” and inter-governmental standards ensuring compliance with this. More than 200 documents on standardisation, the majority of which comprise national or provisional national standards, have been developed with the involvement of the Institute’s specialists since 2008.