MOSCOW, August 26 (RAPSI) – The environmental protection authority, Rosprirodnadzor, has opened an administrative case against a Gazprom contractor, RIA Novosti/Prime reported on Wednesday, citing a statement by the Ministry of Natural Protection and Environment.

Midglen Logistics Sakhalin LLC, a contractor for Gazprom subsidiary Gazprom Flot, provides waste management services on the Sea of Okhotsk shelf. According to the ministry, Midglen did not hold the proper state environmental certificates.

The ministry addressed the case after public organizations informed it about violations of the environmental protection law, the ministry’s press service said. Following inspections, Rosprirodnadzor found that Midglen had been managing hazardous Class IV waste, including drilling sludge, waste drilling mud and drilling waste water, without proper state certificates.

The ministry has opened an administrative violations case and fined Midglen for an unidentified sum.

Midglen Logistics Sakhalin was registered in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on February 15, 2006 as a logistics and freight forwarding company. In 2009 it began providing its services for Sakhalin oil and gas projects such as Gazprom’s Sakhalin-3 project, which included hazardous waste management.

Gazprom Flot (Gazflot) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gazprom. It was created in 1994 to implement the country’s integrated policy of oil and gas exploration and development on the Russian continental shelf.