Yamal to fuel Northwest Russia
Gas from the Yamal Peninsula will cover the current deficit in Northwest Russia, a leading representative of Gazprom says.
Speaking at a company meeting on Wednesday, Deputy Chairman of Gazprom’s Management Committee Valeri Golubyov said that gas from the Bovanenkovo field in Yamal by year 2013 will cover the current deficit in Northern and Northwestern Russia.
By 2014 a total of 24 billion cubic meters of gas will be supplied to the region, Golubyov maintained, Baltinfo.ru reports. –That should be enough to cover both the current and the future consumption of the region, he added.
However, until then, the region will “experience a very complex situation”, the company leader stressed.
Gazprom is currently investing major sums in the development of the Bovanenkovo gas field, the biggest in the gas-rich Yamal peninsula with its 4,9 trillion cubic meters. The field is being connected with a west-bound pipeline and a railway connection to the national railway grid.
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During a visit to the site last week, company representative confirmed that the project is on schedule. So far, more than 745 kilometers of the pipeline connection to Ukhta in the Komi Republic have been welded. The pipeline’s first string of more than 1,200 kilometers will be completed this year, a press release from the company reads.
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Production in the project is due to start in the third quarter of 2012.
