Gas Pipelines

Like other Gazprom’s projects the Altai gas pipeline construction will pay special attention to the environmental aspects. All possible gas pipeline routes will be reviewed during the route planning. The ultimate route selection will depend on the possible environmental impacts as well as on the project’s economics.

The Gryazovets-Vyborg gas pipeline is intended for securing gas deliveries to the Nord Stream gas pipeline and supplying consumers of Russia's Northwestern region.

The Murmansk – Volkhov gas pipeline will make it possible to deliver gas from the Shtokman field to consumers in northwestern Russia and to export gas via the North Stream project.

The Pre-Caspian gas pipeline will have the length of circa 1,700 km, of which over 500 km will run across Turkmenistan and circa 1,200 km – across Kazakhstan.

In particular, the Urengoy gas transmission hub expansion and the Northern Tyumen Regions (SRTO) – Torzhok gas trunkline construction are in progress today in order to withdraw additional gas volumes from the Nadym – Pur – Taz region.

The Nord Stream gas pipeline (Nord Stream) is a fundamentally new route for Russian gas exports to Europe. The target markets for gas supply via Nord Stream are Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, France, Denmark and other countries.

In particular, the Urengoy gas transmission hub expansion and the Northern Tyumen Regions (SRTO) – Torzhok gas trunkline construction are in progress today in order to withdraw additional gas volumes from the Nadym – Pur – Taz region.

The South Stream project is aimed at strengthening the European energy security. It is another real step toward executing the Gazprom strategy to diversify the Russian natural gas supply routes. The project provides for South Stream's offshore section to run under the Black Sea from the Russian coast (Beregovaya compressor station) to the Bulgarian coast.

The Blue Stream gas pipeline is designed to transit Russian natural gas to Turkey across the Black Sea bypassing third countries. The pipeline will supplement the existing gas transmission corridor from Russia to Turkey crossing the territory of Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and Bulgaria.

The Dzhubga – Lazarevskoye – Sochi gas pipeline construction will ensure continuous and reliable gas supply to the Caucasian coastal resort area of the Black Sea and will additionally improve gas supply to Sochi – the host city of 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

The gas pipeline route length will make up 174 kilometers including over 150 kilometers laid on the Black Sea bed.

The Plan providing for an increase in natural gas supplies to the Kaliningrad Oblast up to 2.5 billion cubic meters per annum by 2010 incorporates three investment projects:

1. Increasing the throughput capacity of the Minsk – Vilnius – Kaunas – Kaliningrad gas pipeline up to 2.5 billion cubic meters per annum.
2. Constructing the Kaliningrad underground gas storage (UGS) facility.
3. Expanding the Krasnoznamensk compressor station (CS).

The Pochinki – Gryazovets gas pipeline is designed to raise the reliability and flexibility of Russia’s Unified Gas Supply System in the Northwestern and Central regions of the country.

Initially, the Pochinki – Gryazovets pipeline will secure additional gas supplies to the Northwestern region and, inter alia, convey gas to the Nord Stream gas pipeline. Further on, when natural gas deliveries from Yamal are started, the gas pipeline will be switched to reverse flow and gas will be rerouted to the Central region.

The Kasimovskoye UGS – Voskresensk CS gas pipeline was commissioned on October 23, 2009 in the aim of securing maximum reliability of natural gas supplies to Moscow and the Moscow Oblast. Owing to the maximum daily gas withdrawal from the Kasimovskoye and Uvyazovskoye UGS facilities (aggregate active gas capacity equals 10 billion cubic meters, i.e. nearly as much as Moscow consumes in the cold weather time), the new gas pipeline will additionally supply consumers with up to 130 million cubic meters of natural gas per day during the autumn-winter period.

The transnational Yamal – Europe gas pipeline runs across four countries: Russia, Belarus, Poland and Germany. The current overall length of the pipeline exceeds 2,000 km. There are 14 compressor stations operational, of which three are in Russia, five – in Belarus, five – in Poland and one – in Germany.