The Gazprom Management Committee took note of the information about the progress of the programs for gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and their synchronization with regional programs for converting housing and utilities, industries and other entities to gas, as well as the information about the gas supplies and extension of gas grid coverage in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
It was noted that in line with the instructions of Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, Gazprom carries out large-scale work to ensure that a 100 per cent technically possible gas grid coverage is achieved in Russia by 2030. To that end, the Company builds gas pipeline branches with gas distribution stations (GDSs), as well as inter-settlement and intra-settlement gas pipelines, and lays gas pipelines up to the boundaries of land plots.
Gas infrastructure expansion for Russian consumers is being implemented on the basis of five-year programs and annual synchronization plans. At present, said documents are in force in 72 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. For instance, by the beginning of October 2024, Gazprom has completed the construction and renovation of seven gas pipeline branches with GDSs, as well as the construction of 542 intra-settlement and inter-settlement gas pipelines.
Among the largest facilities built are the gas pipeline branch complete with the Blagoveshchensk GDS and the inter-settlement gas pipeline stretching to the city of Blagoveshchensk and the village of Chigiri in the Amur Region. These facilities have created the conditions for supplying gas to 79,600 households and five boiler houses. The first consumer to have received gas in Blagoveshchensk is the eco-friendly gas boiler house, which will replace as many as six coal-fired boiler houses.
Gazprom continues gas infrastructure expansion in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The corresponding schedule (roadmap) was signed at St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024. At the first stage of the activities, the Government of the region is to draw up a forecast fuel-and-energy balance plan of the Krasnoyarsk Territory through 2035, along with the list of priority consumers of liquefied natural gas (LNG). These data will serve as the basis for Gazprom to perform the design development for the construction of an LNG production complex to ensure off-grid gas supplies to the regional consumers, including the city of Krasnoyarsk.
The Management Committee reviewed the information about gas supplies to the Khabarovsk Territory from 2025.
At present, Gazprom is building gas pipeline branches to switch the consumers of the Okha – Komsomolsk-on-Amur gas pipeline (not owned by Gazprom) to the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas trunkline.
The issues of the progress of the programs for gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and their synchronization with regional programs for converting housing and utilities, industries and other entities to gas, as well as the issues of the gas supplies and extension of gas grid coverage in the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the gas supplies to the Khabarovsk Territory from 2025, will be submitted for consideration by the Gazprom Board of Directors.
