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HISTORY
A reputed chemist and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Andrey Chernyshov became the first director of VNIIPodzemgaz. Under his directorship fundamental principles of underground coal gasification technology were developed, and in 1952 this technology was awarded the Stalin Prize. In 1954 our specialists were the first in the world to carry out the hydraulic fracturing of a coal-bed and perform the laying of inclined horizontal borehole in the coal-bed.
The institute specialists developed more than 40 types of gas burner devices for all gas-using equipment: heat-treatment and heating furnaces for machine-building industry, smelting furnaces for ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy, burner furnaces for cement and refractory industry, furnaces for glass industry, domestic and industrial boilers. By mid 70s the enterprise was re-organized into the all-union scientific and research association, which included scientific and research institute, Central-Asian subsidiary in Tashkent, three gas-using equipment producing plants in Kamensk-Shakhtinsk (the Rostov region), Fastov (the Kiev region) and Leninabad (Uzbekistan), commissioning areas, state gas burner devices testing centre, and special planning and design office.
From the beginning of the 70s up to the mid 80s the organization performed the functions of a Coordination centre of CMEA members (People's Republic of Bangladesh, People's Republic of Hungary, German Democratic Republic, People’s Republic of Poland, the USSR, Czech and Slovak Socialistic Republic) on the problem “development of high-efficiency methods of utilizing gas as fuel and of gas-using equipment design”.
In 1999 a group of VNIIGAZ specialists, headed by A.M. Karasevich, joined Promgaz, contributing new fields of development such as coal-bed methane, gas supply and small hydrocarbon fields. Today, OAO Promgaz is the major scientific centre of Gazprom in regional energy policy substantiation, gas supply, distribution and utilization, development of coal-bed methane resources and small-scale hydrocarbon material fields.
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The history of our organization starts from June 17, 1949, when on the basis of VNIGI underground gasification laboratory the All-Union Scientific, Research and Design Institute of Underground Coal Gasification (VNIIPodzemgaz) was created with the main task to develop underground gasification technology for coal, shale rock and oil and design relevant equipment. 
In 1964 VNIIPodzemgaz was changed its name to VNIIPromgaz. The institute was to develop new methods of gas usage efficiency enhancement in the branches of national economy; design and implement new types of gas-using equipment and devices; carry out research in order to design and maintain underground vessels in mine rocks. 
At that time the enterprise flourished mainly due to the personality of its director – Nikolay Ananyevich Fedorov. The association employed about 4,000 people, including 1,000 scientists, engineers and technical specialists In 1975 the license for underground coal gasification technology was sold to the US company Texas Utilities for $ 2 million.
After the break-up of the Soviet Union and a number of its reforms (including its reorganization into a joint-stock society in 1994) the organization concentrated on developing efficient gas usage technologies.
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