Gazprom PJSC said it has begun constructing natural gas trunklines to integrate the Power of Siberia pipeline with the Far East’s local gas distribution network.
The integration project, called the Eastern Gas Supply System project, covers Vladivostok—the main city of Russia’s Far East Federal District—and the Far Eastern regions of Khabarovsk and Sakhalin, according to a Gazprom news release.
“Gazprom is currently implementing the primary stage of the project that envisages the connection of the existing Power of Siberia and Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas trunklines”, the state-owned energy giant said. “To that end, the construction of the Belogorsk – Khabarovsk section of the Eastern Gas Supply System began in 2024”.
The section under construction will stretch over 800 kilometers (497.1 miles), according to Gazprom.
Other sections are in the design and survey stage, the announcement said.
The Eastern Gas Supply System, “provides for a comprehensive development of gas transmission capacities in eastern Russia and their further integration with the gas infrastructure in the west of Russia”, Gazprom said. “This will additionally enhance the reliability and flexibility of gas supplies to Russian consumers and generate new opportunities to facilitate further gas infrastructure expansion in Siberia and the Far East”.
Put onstream December 2022, as announced by Gazprom at the time, Power of Siberia also allows for the gas trade between Russia and China.
Late last year Gazprom said it signed an agreement with China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) to increase the volume of Russian gas export to China in 2024 through Power of Siberia.
At a meeting between representatives of the oil and gas majors, “[i]t was noted that Russian gas supplies via the eastern route, i.e. the Power of Siberia gas pipeline, are carried out in a reliable manner”, Gazprom said in a press release December 14, not disclosing agreed volumes.
“The companies are preparing for the increase of these supplies which is planned for 2024.
“Apart from that, a significant increase in the volumes of the gas supplies has already been provided since mid-November this year in line with the previously signed Supplementary Agreement to the relevant Sales and Purchase Agreement”.
In October 2023 Gazprom announced the Supplementary Agreement with CNPC, also a state-owned company, for the supply of Russian gas to China for the rest of the year via Power of Siberia. In February 2022 Gazprom and CNPC signed a long-term deal for gas supply for China via the pipeline. "As soon as the project reaches its full capacity, the amount of Russian pipeline gas supplies to China is going to grow by 10 billion cubic meters [353.15 billion cubic feet], totaling 48 billion cubic meters [1.7 trillion cubic feet] per year (including deliveries via the Power of Siberia gas trunkline)", Gazprom said in a news release at the time.
In June 2022 the companies signed a technical agreement that "outlines the key technical parameters of the gas pipeline's trans-border section, including the submerged crossing under the boundary river
Ussuri, as well as the physical and chemical properties of gas to be supplied", Gazprom said in a media release then.
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