Russian gas monopoly is moving ahead with the construction of the
Amur gas processing plant that will allow for the Power of Siberia
pipeline to be implemented on time, the company’s CEO,
Alexey Miller said at conference call on occasion of New Year’s Eve.
Russia is moving ahead with projects to supply gas to the East as
part of its diversification program, lessening its dependence on its key
market – Europe.
“As part of the Eastern Gas Program, we continued to pre-develop the
Kirinskoye and Yuzhno-Kirinskoye fields on the Sakhalin shelf and the
Kshukskoye and Nizhne-Kvakchikskoye fields in the Kamchatka Peninsula,”
Miller said in comments posted on Gazprom’s website.
“Needless to say, the Eastern Gas Program includes another essential
project, one that will play a decisive role in the timely implementation
of Power of Siberia. I am speaking about the construction of the Amur
gas processing plant. With a capacity of 42 billion cubic metres, it
will be the largest gas processing plant in Russia. Decades have passed
since the last facility of this kind was built in our country. Today, we
are working to regain old competencies and obtain new ones,” the
Gazprom CEO said.
As far as Gazprom’s resource base is concerned, it is gradually
shifting north. “We have already established a new gas production center
in Yamal, with the Bovanenkovskoye field under development. This year,
we ramped up our production capacities at Bovanenkovskoye to 264 million
cubic metres of gas per day,” Miller said.
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