Five-year program for gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion in Sakhalin Region going on schedule

A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Valery Limarenko, Governor of the Sakhalin Region, took place today at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2021.

The parties discussed the progress of the Sakhalin Region’s gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion program for 2021–2025. It was noted that both the Company and the Region are strictly observing the work synchronization plan established for this year.

In particular, Gazprom continues working on the development of the gas supply system in the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk urban territory. At present, a gas pipeline branch together with the Yuzhnaya gas distribution station (GDS) are under construction, and a looping is being laid from the GDS to the active inter-settlement gas pipeline stretching between the Dalneye GDS and CHPP-1 of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The new facilities will make it possible to redistribute the load between the two GDSs and increase the reliability of gas supplies to CHPP-1. Moreover, the conditions for further gas grid expansion in residential areas will be created in the north and south of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk urban territory.

At the same time, construction is underway on two gas pipeline branches, the Dolinsk and Korsakov GDSs, and four inter-settlement gas pipelines in the Dolinsky and Korsakovsky Districts. Before the end of the year, the construction and installation of another five gas pipelines will commence here.

Design development continues for gas pipeline branches and the Leonidovo and Makarov GDSs in the Poronaysky and Makarovsky Districts. The design and estimate documentation for the construction of four inter-settlement gas pipelines from these GDSs is already completed. This year, it is also planned to develop the design documentation for 18 more inter-settlement gas pipelines and three GDSs in the Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, Kholmsky, Korsakovsky, Smirnykhovsky, and Tymovsky Districts.

In addition, Gazprom jointly with the Government of the Sakhalin Region is collecting the data on the region’s projected volumes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) consumption in order to use them as the basis for drawing up the roadmap for the construction of the LNG infrastructure sufficient to provide off-grid gas supply to the consumers of Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands.

Special attention was paid to the prospects of NGV market development in the Sakhalin Region. As of today, two compressed natural gas (CNG) filling stations of Gazprom and a compressed natural gas unit are working in the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The design development works for another CNG filling station to be built in the Tymovskoye settlement are nearing completion, and land plots are being selected for the construction of new NGV refueling infrastructure facilities in the town of Poronaysk and the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.