Power of Siberia 2 project de facto being implemented already - Gazprom CEO
VLADIVOSTOK. Sept 8 (Interfax) - The project Power of Siberia 2 to supply gas to China is already de facto being implemented, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said on Sunday.
One of the first sites of the future gas transport corridor is the 410-km part from the Aganskaya compressor station in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District to the Vertikos compressor station in the Tomsk region. Besides trunk pumping, it will help increase the supplies to consumers in the regions of the Siberian Federal District.
"You see, you know everything," Miller told Interfax on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum, responding to a question as to whether it can be said that the Power of Siberia 2 project is already being implemented.
According to earlier reports, a legally binding memorandum on the construction of the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline and the Union-East transit gas pipeline through Mongolia was signed in Beijing on September 2. The route will make it possible to supply 50 billion cubic meters of gas a year from Russia through Mongolia.
Power of Siberia 2 is part of the large-scale project Eastern Gas Supply System, which will connect extraction centers in the eastern part of the country to the existing Unified Gas Supply System and will ensure network gas supply to regions that previously did not have access to it (the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Buryatia, the Transbaikal Territory, and the Jewish Autonomous District).
The Eastern Gas Supply System starts at the giant Tambeisky deposit in the northern part of the Yamal Peninsula. The Main State Evaluation Directorate (Glavgosexpertiza) approved a project infrastructure development of the deposit and a gas pipeline from it. The corridor runs further through the Bovanenkkovskoye deposit ad Novy Urengoi (center of Russian gas extraction - Nadym-Pur-Tazovsky region), the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District, the Tomsk and Kemerovo regions, the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and reaches the border of Mongolia in the Irkutsk region (Naushki gas metering station).
From Buryatia, the gas transport system may run further south of Lake Baikal to Ulan-Ude and Chita and connect to the current Power of Siberia pipeline in Skovordino (runs from the Kovyktinskoye deposit and the Chayandinskoye deposit in Yakutia north of Baikal).
The part running through the Jewish Autonomous Region, Belogorsk-Khabarovsk, is going further eastward. It will connect the Eastern Gas Supply System to the current Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok trunk pipeline
