The small municipalities’ gasification as a priority task of the national economy in Russia

Abstract

Abstract Sustainable development of the regional and municipal economy is possible only by increasing the economic growth rate and living standards of the population. These strategic socio-economic objectives cannot be achieved without solving the problems of gasification and gas supply to settlements. Gas supply is a technologically complex, costly and institutionally multi-stage process. The laying of gas pipelines to the places of the consumers’ localization to ensure the uninterrupted supply of natural gas in the required volume requires many significant resources, approvals and involves various economic entities and the population itself as the final consumer of gas in this process. At the same time, the use of natural gas is associated with its price, environmental and technological advantages as a fuel for the functioning of housing and communal facilities, enterprises and organizations of various sectors of the economy. In this regard, gas supply to settlements is one of the urgent tasks of both the national economy of Russia as a whole, and individual regions, and municipalities. The most effective tool for the municipalities’ gasification process is the project management, which consists in the development and implementation of specific projects for the construction of gasification facilities, designed to ensure the connection of consumers immediately after the completion of gas pipelines. In a market economy, it is project management that is able to successfully implement a set of measures for gasification of municipalities on the basis of clear coordination of actions of all participants in the process, consolidation of the necessary labor, material, financial and organizational and managerial resources, which will bring a real result, expressed in an increase in the level of gas supply to enterprises, organizations and people.