New gas production centers and a unified gas transmission system are rapidly evolving in eastern Russia. Together, they will secure long-term gas supplies to consumers in Eastern Siberia and the Far East and help establish a new major route to export Russian gas to Asia-Pacific.
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Sakhalin gas production center
The presence of vast proven reserves offshore Sakhalin allowed Gazprom to create a gas production center in the area and start delivering gas to consumers in Russia’s Far East and abroad. Gazprom runs two large-scale projects in the region, namely Sakhalin II (Piltun-Astokhskoye and Lunskoye fields) and Sakhalin III (Kirinskoye, Yuzhno-Kirinskoye and Mynginskoye fields within the Kirinsky block, as well as the Ayashsky and Vostochno-Odoptinsky blocks).
Yakutia gas production center
Yakutia’s largest field – Chayandinskoye – with around 1.4 trillion cubic meters of gas serves as the basis for the gas production center. Gazprom also holds development licenses for such local fields as Sobolokh-Nedzhelinskoye, Verkhnevilyuchanskoye, Tas-Yuryakhskoye, and Srednetyungskoye.
Irkutsk gas production center
The gas production center is based on the Kovyktinskoye field (over 2.5 trillion cubic meters of gas), the largest one in eastern Russia. The Company has discovered another field, Chikanskoye, next to the Kovyktinskoye field.
Kamchatka gas production center
As part of the project aimed at providing the Kamchatka Territory with gas supplies, Gazprom develops the Kshukskoye and Nizhne-Kvakchikskoye fields on the west coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula and delivers gas to consumers in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and other population centers.
Gas transmission system
In the eastern regions, the development of gas transmission capacities progresses simultaneously with the development of the gas production sector. In the future it is planned to integrate the gas transmission system evolving in eastern Russia into the national Unified Gas Supply System with the purpose of creating the world’s largest unified technological complex.
In eastern Russia, Gazprom has built the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas transmission system that traverses the Sakhalin Region and the Khabarovsk and Primorye Territories. At present, the Company constructs the Power of Siberia gas pipeline running through the Irkutsk Region, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), and the Amur Region. Eventually, Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok and Power of Siberia may be joined together near Khabarovsk.
According to initial estimates, there are 52.4 trillion cubic meters of onshore gas and 14.9 trillion cubic meters of offshore gas in eastern Russia.
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Video about the Eastern Gas Program, 10 minutes
The commercial A+B+C1+C2 gas reserves within Gazprom’s licensed areas in Eastern Siberia and the Far East exceed 5 trillion cubic meters.
There are five fields in commercial production.
The length of gas pipelines in operation is around 3,000 kilometers.
The state-run Development Program for an integrated gas production, transportation and supply system in Eastern Siberia and the Far East, taking into account potential gas exports to China and other Asia-Pacific countries (Eastern Gas Program), was adopted in September 2007 pursuant to the Order by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Energy. Gazprom was appointed by the Government of the Russian Federation as the Program coordinator.
Project scope
Sakhalin gas production center
The presence of vast proven reserves offshore Sakhalin allowed Gazprom to create a gas production center in the area and start delivering gas to consumers in Russia’s Far East and abroad. Gazprom runs two large-scale projects in the region, namely Sakhalin II (Piltun-Astokhskoye and Lunskoye fields) and Sakhalin III (Kirinskoye, Yuzhno-Kirinskoye and Mynginskoye fields within the Kirinsky block, as well as the Ayashsky and Vostochno-Odoptinsky blocks).
Yakutia’s largest field – Chayandinskoye – 1.2 trillion cubic meters of gas serves as the basis for the gas production center. Gazprom also holds development licenses for such local fields as Sobolokh-Nedzhelinskoye, Verkhnevilyuchanskoye, Tas-Yuryakhskoye, and Srednetyungskoye.
The gas production center is based on the Kovyktinskoye field (1.8 trillion cubic meters of gas), the largest one in eastern Russia. The Company has discovered another field, Chikanskoye, next to the Kovyktinskoye field.
As part of the project aimed at providing the Kamchatka Territory with gas supplies, Gazprom develops the Kshukskoye and Nizhne-Kvakchikskoye fields on the west coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula and delivers gas to consumers in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and other population centers.
In the eastern regions, the development of gas transmission capacities progresses simultaneously with the development of the gas production sector. In the future it is planned to integrate the gas transmission system evolving in eastern Russia into the national Unified Gas Supply System with the purpose of creating the world’s largest unified technological complex.
In eastern Russia, Gazprom has built the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas transmission system that traverses the Sakhalin Region and the Khabarovsk and Primorye Territories. The Company has put into operation the Power of Siberia gas trunkline running through the Irkutsk Region, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), and the Amur Region. Eventually, Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok and Power of Siberia may be joined together near Khabarovsk.
Developing gas resources and shaping gas transmission system in Eastern Russia
The Sobolevo – Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky gas trunkline, which was built by Gazprom, laid the foundation for developing the gas supply system in the Kamchatka Territory.
The integrated development of the gas production and processing industries in eastern Russia is focused on using multi-component gas from the eastern fields as efficiently as possible.
Russia's first liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant has been in operation on Sakhalin Island since 2009.
Gazprom's Amur Gas Processing Plant (GPP), one of the largest gas processing plants in the world, was launched near the town of Svobodny, Amur Region, in 2021.
The plant processes gas from the Yakutia and Irkutsk gas production centers, extracting valuable components for the petrochemical and other industries. The products are intended for the domestic and foreign markets.
Across eastern Russia, new gas production centers have been built in Yakutia and the Kamchatka Territory, as well as in the Irkutsk and Sakhalin Regions. Next in line is the Krasnoyarsk gas production center.
Production projects
In 2009, the Sakhalin II project started producing natural gas.
Gazprom launched commercial gas production from the Kshukskoye field in 2010 and from the Nizhne-Kvakchikskoye field in the Kamchatka Territory in 2011, with the annual design capacity totaling 750 million cubic meters of gas.
In 2014, the Company put into commercial operation the Kirinskoye field of the Sakhalin III project. In addition, Gazprom discovered new fields offshore Sakhalin, such as Yuzhno-Kirinskoye, Mynginskoye, and a field within the Yuzhno-Lunskaya formation.
In 2019, Gazprom started to produce gas from the Chayandinskoye field in Yakutia. The trial oil production from the field began in 2014.
2022 saw the launch of the Kovyktinskoye field in the Irkutsk Region.
Polyarnaya Zvezda (Polar Star) semi-submersible drilling rig offshore Sakhalin Island
In 2010, the 392-kilometer Sobolevo – Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky gas pipeline came onstream, with the annual capacity of up to 750 million cubic meters of gas.
In 2011, Gazprom brought into operation the first start-up complex of the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas transmission system (GTS). The total length of the GTS exceeds 1,800 kilometers. When it reaches its full capacity, the system will be able to convey around 30 billion cubic meters of the Sakhalin gas.
Construction of Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas pipeline
export capacity of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline
In 2014, the Company launched the construction of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline with the length of around 3,000 kilometers and the annual export capacity of 38 billion cubic kilometers of gas. In 2019, the gas pipeline was brought into operation and started to supply Russian gas to China (a section of Power of Siberia was built, stretching for some 2,200 kilometers from Yakutia to the Chinese border near Blagoveshchensk). 2022 saw the launch of Power of Siberia's section that stretches for 804 kilometers between the Kovyktinskoye field and the Chayandinskoye field.
The LNG plant of the Sakhalin II project entered service in February 2009. The annual design capacity of its two production trains totals 9.6 million tons of LNG. It is planned to ramp up the plant's capacity through the construction of the third train.
Prigorodnoye production complex of Sakhalin II project
The construction of the Amur GPP began in October 2015. The first production train of the plant was put in operation in June 2021. The second production train and the first of three helium units were launched in September 2021. At the same time, the world’s biggest Logistics Center for the servicing of helium containers (helium hub) came onstream in Vladivostok.
When implementing projects in severe natural and climatic conditions of eastern Russia, Gazprom applies advanced and highly reliable engineering solutions, including lightly manned and energy saving technologies. This approach enables the Company to tap the hydrocarbon potential of Eastern Siberia and the Far East
In order to develop the Kirinskoye field offshore Sakhalin, Gazprom created a subsea production system – the first one in the history of Russia's gas industry.
As of today, Kirinskoye is the only field on the Russian shelf where production is carried out without rigs or any other above-water structures.
The Chayandinskoye field in Yakutia is developed using lightly manned technologies, which ensure equipment monitoring and integrated management of facilities in an automatic mode, as well as renewables-based stand-alone power systems. For the first time in Russia, the field uses the membrane technology for helium separation from natural gas on a large scale and directly onsite.
The Company constructed the Sobolevo – Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky gas pipeline taking into account high seismic activity in Kamchatka. The pipeline safety is ensured through, among other things, special engineering solutions. For instance, a number of pillars in water crossings are not firmly connected to the pipeline, which allows the pillars to shift from side to side in case of seismic activity, thereby maintaining the integrity of the pipeline.
As part of the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok GTS project, an inter-settlement gas pipeline was constructed in the Primorye Territory to connect the gas distribution station located in Vladivostok to the Russky Island, with a pipeline branch to Vladivostok's CHPP-2. The most technically challenging section of the gas pipeline – a two-string passage across the Eastern Bosphorus Strait – was built using the directional drilling method. At the time of construction, Gazprom set a precedent in Russia by building a passage of significant length (2.8 kilometers each string) and a considerable mine tunnel diameter (762 millimeters) in the extremely difficult geological environment (rocks).
Gazprom used domestically produced steel pipes with internal flow coating to build the Power of Siberia gas pipeline. This technology makes gas transmission less energy-consuming thanks to a reduction in pipe roughness and therefore in friction. External insulation coating is made of innovative domestic nanocomposite materials, which ensures high corrosion resistance of the gas pipeline. Pipes with enhanced deformation properties and special engineering solutions are used in the areas of active tectonic faults.
The basic principle of the Eastern Gas Program is to prioritize gas supplies to Russian consumers.
Despite rich natural gas reserves, gas grid coverage averages 13 per cent in the Far Eastern Federal District and 6.8 per cent in the Siberian Federal District, while the countrywide level stands at 67.2 per cent. The General Gas Supply and Gasification Schemes developed for the regions of Eastern Siberia and the Far East are based on a comprehensive approach to providing gas grid connections. The Schemes also envisage wide use of LNG as an energy option for stand-alone systems in addition to pipeline natural gas.
In order to reach off-grid households, Gazprom builds gas branches, gas distribution stations, and inter-settlement gas pipelines. Regional governments are responsible for the construction of intra-settlement gas grids and the preparedness for gas supplies.
Thanks to Gazprom’s efforts, pipeline gas reached Vladivostok, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and other population centers in eastern Russia.
The availability of natural gas drives social and economic development and environmental improvement in the regions.
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Amur Gas Processing Plant
Helium production and marketing project that forms part of Eastern Gas Program
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