The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine replaced the acting heads of two strategic enterprises of the Naftogaz Group - Ukrgasdobycha and Ukrtransgaz. The corresponding decision was made at a government meeting today, January 6, 2023, according to the Naftogaz website..

Oleg Tolmachev, who headed the Oil and Gas Exploration and Production division in the Naftogaz Group, became the interim acting officer of Ukrgasvydobycha JSC.

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Oleg Tolmachev has over 20 years of experience in hydrocarbon production in North America. Held senior positions in US gas companies such as BP America, Chesapeake Energy, EnCana Oil \u0026 Gas USA, Eclipse Resources and Montage Resources. In particular, he headed high-tech projects for the development of large fields in North America with deposits of gas and gas condensate. Among his responsibilities was to increase the economic efficiency of projects, the formation and management of multifunctional teams (geology, development, drilling, production, preparation and processing of hydrocarbons).

Roman Malyutin, who has more than 20 years of experience in gas transportation and storage enterprises, has been appointed acting head of Ukrtransgaz JSC, which is the operator of all Ukrainian underground gas storage facilities..

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Roman Malyutin went all the way from an operator and engineer at the Kegichevskoye UGSF to Deputy Chief Engineer of the Eastern Region of the Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine. In the last year and a half, he headed the technical department of JSC Ukrtransgaz, where he was responsible for the operation of compressor stations, energy and metrology, and also supported projects for the development of low-carbon technologies and the storage of hydrogen mixtures.

“Roman Malyutin and Oleg Tolmachev are highly qualified specialists with significant experience in the oil and gas industry. They are well versed in world experience, but at the same time they worked a lot in Ukraine and understand the challenges that we now face,” said Alexei Chernyshev, head of Naftogaz Group..

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According to media reports, the decision to dismiss the previous heads of these companies, Oleksandr Romanyuk and Serhiy Pereloma, was made by the board of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine..

It is reported that a decision was also made to dismiss the executive director of the Naftogaz group, Mavriky Kalugin, and the director for strategy and business development of the group, Sergey Boev. However, this information has not yet been confirmed..