"Gazprom" and CNPC identified site "Power of Siberia"

Energy News Abroad - February 13 10:50

Yesterday Tomsk Chairman of the Board of OJSC "Gazprom" Alexei Miller held a meeting on the implementation of investment projects related to the supply of gas to China for "ET" route. This was reported on the company's website.

During the meeting it was stated that so far agreed to the location of the underwater crossing of the Amur River and technical requirements for engineering surveys for its detailed design.

Also, work is continuing on the creation of the Amur gas processing plant.

Given the strategic importance of tight deadlines and projects, participants paid special attention to organizing the delivery of material and technical resources. In 2014, through a single logistics center in Ust-Kut to Chayandinskoye field pipeline and "The Power of Siberia" was imported 135.8 thousand. Tons of cargo, including 122.5 thousand. Tons of large diameter pipes. In the current year this figure will increase by several times - is scheduled to deliver about 500 thousand. Tons of cargo.

"The Power of Siberia" - a gas pipeline to transport natural gas Yakutsk and Irkutsk gas production centers in the Russian Far East and China. The pipeline will run across the three subjects of the Russian Federation: Irkutsk Region, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the Amur region, and in the future will connect to the GTS "Sakhalin - Khabarovsk - Vladivostok".