A meeting of Gazprom’s Management Committee has heard that all of its gas pipeline projects under construction in northern and northwestern Russia are on schedule. The meeting considered the progress in designing and constructing the Pochinki – Gryazovets, the Gryazovets – Vyborg, the SRTO – Torzhok, the Bovanenkovo – Ukhta gas pipelines.

Pochinki – Gryazovets Pipeline

Approximately 300 km of the 650 km Pochinki – Gryazovets Gas Pipeline has now been laid.

The 56 inch diameter Pochinki – Gryazovets Gas Pipeline will run across the Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Yaroslavl and Vologda Oblasts and have a full throughput capacity will amount to 36 Bcm/a.

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The gas pipeline will embrace up to six compressor stations with the total capacity of 580 MW to be put onstream as necessary and is intended to ensure gas deliveries to the Nord Stream Pipeline and supply consumers in Northwestern Russia.

Gryazovets – Vyborg Pipeline

Construction works have been completed for approximately 600 km of the 900 km Gryazovets – Vyborg Pipeline, which passes through the Leningrad and Vologda Oblasts of the Russian Federation.

Construction is scheduled to be completed in late 2010 and the pipeline will be commissioned in stages throughout 2011, with nominal capacity of 55 Bcm/a by late 2012.

Bovanenkovo – Ukhta Pipeline

Construction work is continuing on the 2,451 km Bovanenkovo – Ukhta Pipeline, which is designed to deliver gas from the Bovanenkovo Field to markets in central Russia.

The Bovanenkovo – Ukhta gas trunkline system will have a capacity of 140 Bcm/a and is scheduled for commissioning in the third quarter of 2012.

SRTO – Torzhok Pipeline

The expansion of the Urengoy gas transmission hub and the Northern Tyumen Regions (SRTO) – Torzhok gas trunkline construction is also underway.

The 2,200 km SRTO – Torzhol Pipeline will comprise 13 compressor stations and its annual design capacity varies from 20.5 to 28.5 Bcm/a across different sections.

Its completion is scheduled for 2011.

Dzhubga – Lazarevskoye – Sochi Pipeline

Meanwhile Stroymontazh has completed the first of four connections between onshore and offshore sections of Gazprom’s Dzhubga – Lazarevskoye – Sochi Pipeline.

The crew of the Bigfoot 1 pipe-lay vessel completed the connection of the pipeline sections at Novomikhailovskoye.

Stroymontazh Director General Ruslan Goryukhin said “So far, none of the companies operating in the Russian gas construction market has performed a pull-in of an operational pipe string through a horizontal directional drilling well from the sea to the shore.”

Approximately 160 km of the pipeline will extend under the Black Sea to the Kudepsta gas distribution station near Sochi.

The Dzhubga – Lazarevskoye – Sochi Pipeline is designed to meet the increased energy demands of Sochi – the host city of the 2014 Olympic Games.