One of the key factors of the Company's steady development is the availability of its own raw material base. SIBUR processes more than 50% of the country's associated petroleum gas (16.8 bln m3 in 2009) received from the largest Russian oil-and-gas companies. A joint venture for APG processing, Yugragazpererabotka LLC, was established with TNK-BP. The main products of gas processing are dry lean gas (DLG), broad fraction of light hydrocarbons (BFLH), stable natural gasoline (SNG), and liquefied petroleum gases (LPG).

Increasing the reception and processing volumes of APG is a long-term strategic priority of the Company which is actively searching for new feedstock sources and expanding the geographical reach of its processing operations, as well as establishing joint ventures with oil companies. SIBUR is implementing a complex program of modernization and the construction of new gas processing operations with a capacity to handle 20-21 bln m3 of APG by 2012.

Gas processing activities at the corporate centre are supervised by the Hydrocarbon Feedstock Business Unit, which is headed by Konstantin Belkin.