Gazprom to begin building gas pipeline from Yakutia in 2012 - Miller
MOSCOW. June 16 (Interfax) - Gazprom will begin construction of a gas pipeline from the Chayanda gas condensate field in Yakutia, which will tie the field to the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok pipeline, in 2012, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said during a visit to Gazprom's central dispatching center by Chinese leader Hu Jintao and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
"We are finishing construction of the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok pipeline with capacity for 30 billion cubic meters (bcm). Next year we are beginning construction of the Chayanda-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok pipeline with 60 bcm of capacity," he said.
The first stage of the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok pipeline has capacity for 5 bcm a year, according to Gazprom documents.
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