The Gazprom Management Committee 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 power generation 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 these gas 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 localities in the Amur Region, Sakhalin Region, and the Khabarovsk, Kamchatka and Primorye Territories.
This 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 and GDS-2 are under construction to serve Vladivostok, and a gas pipeline branch and a GDS to serve the settlement of Vrangel are being built.
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 example, 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 stretching from Power of Siberia will be laid to supply the TPP with gas.
New power generation capacities 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 issue of 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 power generation facilities, will be submitted for consideration by the Gazprom Board of Directors.
