VLADIMIR PUTIN
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VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas transport system (GTS) is a major priority of the Eastern Gas Programme. The main objective of the project, which is implemented by Gazprom on the directive of the Russian government, is to supply the Khabarovsk Territory with gas and organise gas supply to the Primorye Territory, including the facilities of the APEC-2012 summit.
The GTS originates in Sakhalin, then crosses the Nevelskoy Strait and passes by the cities of Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Khabarovsk, and finally ends near Vladivostok. The pipeline includes the operating 472 kilometre long Komsomolsk-on-Amur – Khabarovsk gas pipeline, as well as the Sakhalin – Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Khabarovsk –Vladivostok sections, which are 1,350 kilometres in length. Thus, the total length of the pipeline exceeds 1,800 kilometres.
The Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok GTS runs across regions with a complicated seismotectonic setting. The constructors had to overcome a water corridor through the Nevelskoy Strait and over 400 water barriers lying in the basins of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers.
The system is supposed to deliver about 30 billion cubic metres of Sakhalin gas, provided that the system's 14 compressor stations are fully developed (the total capacity is 1,136 megawatts).
The Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok GTS is the first Russian Far Eastern interregional gas pipeline which will supply gas to large industrial consumers in several Far Eastern regions at the same time and ensure large-scale gasification. It will also create conditions for gas supply to the Asia-Pacific countries.
The project client is Gazprom Invest Vostok.
The construction began in July 2009.
The first GTS start-up complex has been commissioned in September 2011.
The first GTS start-up complex (facilities of major priority which are necessary to launch gas supply), has a capacity of six billion cubic metres per annum and comprises:
the Sakhalin main compressor station with two gas compressor units, having a total capacity of 32 megaWatts;the 1,350 kilometre long linear part of the pipeline, including the twin piece through the Nevelskoy Strait and a pipe bend to the gas distribution station in Vladivostok; power supply, telemechanics and communication systems and access roads;the Vladivostok gas distribution station.
To provide gas to the facilities of the APEC-2012 summit, a 34 km long intervillage gas pipeline was built, running from the Vladivostok gas distribution station to Russky Island with a bend to the utility provider TPP-2. The most complex section of this gas pipeline, which is the twin piece under the Eastern Bosphorus Strait, was constructed by the directional drilling method. Built under difficult geological conditions (hard rock), this piece is unique for the Russian gas industry, particularly due to its considerable length (2.8 kilometres per each train) and diametre of mine working (762 millimetres).
Eastern Gas Programme
The September 2007 order by the Industry and Energy Ministry approved the state-run Development Programme for an integrated gas production, transportation, and supply system in Eastern Siberia and in the Far East, taking into account potential gas exports to China and other Asia-Pacific countries (the Eastern Gas Programme).
Gas production centres are expected to be established in Eastern Russia, including the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Irkutsk Region, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Sakhalin Region and the Kamchatka Territory, which will be united by a system of trunk gas pipelines (except the Kamchatka Territory).
Gas resources in Eastern Siberia and the Far East will facilitate meeting the long-term gas demand of Russia's Far Eastern regions and creating additional potential for gas exports to the Asia-Pacific countries. The key principle of the Eastern Gas Programme is the priority gas supply to the domestic market.
The programme stipulates that the formation of gas production centres and a unified gas transport system will go along with the development of the gas processing and gas chemical industries.
The development of gasification in Eastern Russia
The average gasification in Eastern Siberia and the Far East stands at 6.6%, including less than 3% in villages, while the average country's level totals 63.1% (46.7% in villages).
The Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok GTS will create the necessary basis for a considerable increase in gasification in the Far East. By 2020, it is supposed to reach 35% in the Sakhalin Region (now 8.4%), 87% in the Khabarovsk Territory (now 14%), 72% in the Primorye Territory (now 0%), and 31% in the Jewish Autonomous Region (0%).
The predicted volume of gas consumption in the Sakhalin Region, the Khabarovsk and Primorye Territories, and the Jewish Autonomous Region is: 3.8 billion cubic metres in 2011; 12.7 billion cubic metres in 2015; 23 billion cubic metres in 2020 and 30 billion cubic metres in 2030.
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