The Gazprom headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company's Management Committee and Vyacheslav Shport, Governor of the Khabarovsk Krai.
The meeting addressed the progress with the Agreement of Cooperation and the Accord on Gasification between Gazprom and the Khabarovsk Krai.
It was highlighted that the first startup complex (commissioned on September 8) of the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas transmission system created the necessary conditions for large-scale gasification of the Khabarovsk Krai. Meanwhile, the ongoing works on developing the regional gas supply system and consumers preparation for gas supplies comply with the schedule.
The parties also discussed the issues of implementing social projects in the Okrug. It was underlined that Gazprom would take part in constructing an ice arena in Khabarovsk.
Background
Gazprom and the Khabarovsk Krai Government entered into the Agreement of Cooperation in April 2002 and extended it in November 2009. The Accord on Gasification was signed in December 2005.
Natural gas penetration level in the Khabarovsk Krai makes up 15.3 per cent including 17.8 per cent in cities and towns and 0.8 per cent in the rural area. The identical figures throughout Russia amount to 63.1, 69.8 and 46.7 per cent accordingly.
In 2009 Gazprom worked out the General Scheme for gas supply to and gasification of the Khabarovsk Krai. In 2010 the Company allocated RUB 90 million to design and launch the construction of three regional inter-settlement gas pipelines with the total length of 33.8 kilometers.
In 2011 Gazprom is going to invest RUB 1 billion in the regional gasification development. The funds will be used to design, construct and commission five inter-settlement gas pipelines with the total length of 42.7 kilometers as well as to design two gas laterals and a gas liquefaction facility near the gas distribution station of the Nikolaevsk-on-Amur city.
Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok is the first inter-regional gas transmission system (GTS) in Eastern Russia. The 1,350-kilometer first startup complex of the GTS has the annual throughput capacity of 6 billion cubic meters of natural gas. At full capacity, the GTS will be able to convey some 30 billion cubic meters of Sakhalin gas per year.
The GTS construction aims to develop gas supply in the Khabarovsk Krai and the Sakhalin Oblast, arrange gas supply to the Primorsky Krai as well as create conditions for gas deliveries to Asia-Pacific countries.
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