Sakhalin-Komsomolsk-Khabarovsk pipeline .............................
Gazprom joining Sakhalin-Komsomolsk-Khabarovsk pipeline building
November 12, 2004
Moscow. (Interfax) - Russian gas giant Gazprom is signing onto the construction project for the Sakhalin-Komsomolsk-Khabarovsk gas pipeline.
A Gazprom release says a company delegation began a working trip to the Far East Federal District on Thursday. It will encompass meetings with the Khabarovsk territory's Fuel and Energy Minister Vladimir Slivko and the management of Daltransgaz, Khabarovskenergo, Khabarovskkraigaz and Rosneft-Sakhalinmorneftegaz. Issues involved in building the first section of the trunk pipeline, preparing fuel and energy complex facilities for operations in the fall and winter and a program for territorial "gasification" are to be discussed, it says.
A visit will be paid to a part of the pipeline rout for familiarization with the technical state of facilities and construction progress.
Daltransgaz is the pipeline construction operator. Daltransgaz's main shareholders are Rosneft, Rosneft-Sakhalinmorneftegaz, the Federal Agency for Federal Property Management, the Khabarovsk territorial property ministry and the Primorye state property management committee.
Russia's energy strategy for the period until 2020 stipulates the development of a new major gas-extraction center in Eastern Siberia and in the Far East. The government resolved on July 16, 2002, that Gazprom is the coordinator for a program aimed at developing Eastern Siberian and Far Eastern gas resources, creating a system for supplying gas to Russia's Eastern regions and providing a single channel for gas exports to Pacific Rim countries.
The first section of the Sakhalin-Komsomolsk-Khabarovsk pipeline is planned to carry 4.5 billion cubic meters (bcm) per year from Sakhalin deposits to consumers in the Khabarovsk territory, and will link with the existing Okha-Komsomolsk pipeline, the Oktyabrskoye-Khabarovsk pipeline under construction, two compressor stations and distribution points.
The future development of this gas-transport system in the Vladivostok direction will be the first phase in the creation of a single system of gas extraction and transportation in Eastern Siberia and the Far East that will give a strong impetus to economic growth in the entire Eastern part of Russia, the Gazprom statement says. |
