Gazprom will be producing almost half of its gas from fields containing hard-to-recover reserves by 2030, according to the presentation for Gazprom Deputy Chairman Vitaly Markelov’s address at the International Far Eastern Energy Forum dubbed Energy of Sakhalin. In 2025, Gazprom’s gas production totaled 405.4 bln cubic meters, with hard-to-recover reserves accounting for 11.4% of that volume. According to Markelov, as of the beginning of 2026, the company’s current recoverable gas reserves totaled over 27 trillion cubic meters. Earlier, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak instructed the Energy Ministry to develop measures to incentivize the extraction of hard-to-recover oil and gas reserves. Russian Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilyov has said that Russia is expected to fully master the technologies for developing hard-to-recover hydrocarbon reserves by 2027-2028.