"Daughter" of "Gazprom" in 2015 will lay the first kilometers of "Power of Siberia"

20:40 03/27/2015

CEO Anatoly Titov said that a total of pipeline will be approximately 4 thousand kilometers length, is also planned 9 compressor stations and transport within the 68 billion cubic meters of gas.

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MOSCOW, March 27 - RIA Novosti / Prime. A subsidiary of "Gazprom" - "Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk" plans in 2015 to lay the first 70-80 km pipeline "The Power of Siberia," said company CEO Anatoly Titov at a meeting of the Russian Gas Society.

"This project has already begun. The very gas pipeline represents the first launch complex length of 2,136 thousand kilometers. The pipe diameter of 1,400 (millimeters)," - said Titov.

"The second stage of construction means the involvement of the Kovykta field, and this is a plus ... 800 kilometers. In total, the designed capacity ... about 4 thousand kilometers length, 9 compressor stations and transport within the 68 billion cubic meters," - he added.

Also, the company's CEO said that the pipeline is constructed in a fairly complex geological conditions - permafrost, geological faults, elevation 100-1500 meters above sea level.

In May 2014, "Gazprom" and China's CNPC signed a contract for 30 years for the supply of natural gas on the eastern route through the bends of the pipeline "The Power of Siberia." Then the contract is estimated by the parties in the $ 400 billion. Deliveries are to begin in 2018 in the amount of 5 billion cubic meters, and later will be brought up to 38 billion cubic meters per year. Serve as a source of raw materials and Chayandinskoe Kovykta field.

In early February 2015 "Gazprom" and CNPC agreed to place the underwater crossing of the Amur River pipeline section "The Power of Siberia." "Gazprom" has already held a number of tenders for the purchase of pipes for pipeline totaling 67.7 billion rubles.