Gazprom built 432 km, 54% of the pipeline section between Chayandinskoye & Kovyktinskoye fields

St.Petersburg, October 29 - Neftegaz.RU. Russia’s energy major Gazprom continues pre-development operations at the Chayandinskoye field, which forms the basis for the Yakutia gas production center.
Systematic development of gas producing wells is underway at the field, and the construction of auxiliary production facilities for the oil rim is nearing completion.

New compressor stations are now being built to consistently increase the pipeline's throughput.

Starting from 2023, Power of Siberia will be receiving gas from the Kovyktinskoye field in the Irkutsk Region.
To that end, Gazprom is actively building the pipeline section between Kovyktinskoye and Chayandinskoye.

The works are going on schedule, as of today:

• 432 out of 803.4 km (i.e. almost 54 % of the section's overall length) have been welded, laid, and backfilled
• the 1^st of 2 microtunnels within the gas pipeline's submerged crossing under the Lena River is currently being built

At Kovyktinskoye, production drilling and construction of infrastructure facilities continue.
The ongoing operations include the setting up of foundation bases, installation of steel structures and equipment for the top-priority comprehensive gas treatment unit № 2 (CGTU-2), construction of the condensate pipeline, foundation works and installation of steel structures for CGTU-3.
In September, Gazprom´s Chairman Alexey Miller said that gas supplies via the Power of Siberia pipeline have reached 10 billion m³.
Gazprom intends to become China’s biggest gas supplier, accounting for more than 25 % of Chinese imports by 2035.