Today Byisk (the Altai Kray) hosted the ceremony dedicated to commissioning of the Barnaul-Biysk section of the Barnaul-Biysk-Gorno-Altaisk gas main with branch pipeline to Belokurikha and providing gas supply to Byisk.

Attending the ceremony were Anatoly Kvashnin, Plenipotentiary of the Russian President in the Siberian Federal District, Alexander Karlin, Governor of the Altai Kray, Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee as well as heads of municipal authorities and the Altai Kray companies.

“The Barnaul-Biysk pipeline commission is a step forward to the regional gasification in Russia and development of the Integrated Gas Supply System in Eastern Siberia and the Far East,” said Alexander Ananenkov.

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Construction of the Barnaul-Biysk-Gorno-Altaisk gas main with branch pipeline to Belokurikha started in 2000. The Barnaul-Kasikha, Kasikha-Troitskoye, Troitskoye-Byisk sections were constructed in 2004, 2005, 2006, respectively. The total length of the Barnaul-Byisk pipeline is nearly 150 km.

Thirteen branch pipelines will be constructed along the route of the Barnaul-Biysk-Gorno-Altaisk gas main with branch pipeline to Belokurikha. The branch pipelines construction is aimed at gasifying 117 apartments in 297 cities and towns of 14 areas of the Altai Kray.

In 2004 Gazprom and the Altai Kray Administration signed the Agreement on cooperation for five years and the Agreement on gasification. In April 2006 the parties signed the network schedule for the construction of gasification facilities in the Altai Kray.

Gasification level of the Altai Kray is at 4.1 per cent including 5.9 per cent in cities & towns and 1.2 per cent in the rural area. The average gasification rates in Russia are at 53, 60, and 34 per cent, respectively.