The Gazprom Board of Directors took note of the information about the development of the gas transmission infrastructure and the expansion of the gas supply and gas infrastructure network in Eastern Siberia and the Far East, including generating facilities.
Gazprom is making comprehensive efforts for establishing a fully developed gas industry in the east of Russia. Among other things, the Company has created such inter-regional gas transmission systems as the Power of Siberia and Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas trunklines, and is systematically expanding their capacities. To connect said trunklines, Gazprom is building the Belogorsk – Khabarovsk gas pipeline.
The gas transmission projects of Gazprom create the conditions required for bringing gas to industrial enterprises, households and boiler houses in eastern Russia. Access to gas facilitates the social and economic development of the regions and improves the quality of life for the population. For instance, under the 2021–2025 gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion programs, the conditions required for gas grid connection have already been created for consumers in the Amur Region, Sakhalin Region, and the Khabarovsk, Kamchatka and Primorye Territories.
The work is going on. At present, Gazprom is building five gas pipeline branches with gas distribution stations (GDSs) in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in order to deliver pipeline gas to consumers in the towns of Aldan and Olyokminsk, the settlement of Chulman, and the villages of Iengra and Murya.
In the Primorye Territory, a gas pipeline branch with GDS-2 to serve Vladivostok, as well as a gas pipeline branch with a GDS stretching to the settlement of Vrangel, are under construction.
In line with the instruction of Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, the Company is designing a gas pipeline branch with a GDS to provide gas supplies to the city of Tynda in the Amur Region.
The development of the gas infrastructure in eastern Russia also makes it possible to create new power generation capacities. For instance, the Power of Siberia gas trunkline became the source of gas for the Svobodny Thermal Power Plant (TPP) of Gazprom in the Amur Region. The 160 MW plant was put into operation in 2021. Under the Comprehensive plan for the modernization and expansion of the trunkline infrastructure approved by the Russian Government, the capacity of the plant is to be increased by 450 MW.
In 2024, Gazprom commenced the construction of the Yuzhno-Yakutsk TPP with a capacity of 330 MW near the Chulman settlement in the Neryungrinsky District, Yakutia. A gas pipeline will be laid from Power of Siberia to supply the TPP with gas.
New power generation capacities being created by Gazprom will contribute to addressing the tasks that pertain to the electrification of the railway infrastructure of the Eastern Polygon, a railway network of strategic importance to Russia which is being developed by Russian Railways.
The Gazprom Management Committee was tasked with continuing the work on the development of the gas transmission infrastructure and the expansion of the gas supply and gas infrastructure network in Eastern Siberia and the Far East, including generating facilities.
