Project Profile

Location: Irkutsk Region, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Amur Region, the Jewish Autonomous Region and the Khabarovsk Territory and terminate in China, Siberia, Russia
Capacity: 5 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas in 2019 (ramping up to 38 bcm)
Length: 4,000 km (2,500 mile)
Start-up Year: 2019

The Power of Siberia pipeline of Gazprom is expected to become a unified gas transmission system (GTS) for the Irkutsk and Yakutia production centres, transporting gas from the regions to Vladivostok via Khabarovsk. The pipeline will run along the already operational Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean oil pipeline, which should help streamline infrastructure and power supply costs. The first section of the Power of Siberia GTS is expected to go into operation in late 2017. The Power of Siberia gas pipeline will run nearly 4,000 kilometres through five Russian constituent entities: the Irkutsk Region, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Amur Region, the Jewish Autonomous Region and the Khabarovsk Territory and have an annual capacity of 38 billion cubic meters of gas. By late 2018, a 2,200-kilometer pipeline section will be built to connect the Chayandinskoye field in Yakutia to the city of Blagoveshchensk on the Russian-Chinese border. It also planned to build sections from the Kovyktinskoye field in the Irkutsk Region to the Chayandinskoye field (around 800 kilometers) and from the town of Svobodny in the Amur Region to the city of Khabarovsk (around 1,000 kilometers). In this way, Power of Siberia will be connected to the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok GTS.

Chayanda is one of the keys to supplying China and will produce up to 25 bcm a year at its peak. Apart from Chayanda, Gazprom plans to link another huge Siberian deposit, Kovykta, with the planned pipeline. This would extend the country\'s gas pipeline system from west to east, enabling Russia to switch volumes depending on needs. At this stage the company would not connect Kovykta to the system. It planned to start pipeline construction from Kovykta in 2019. Excluding Kovykta, the pipeline\'s construction along with developing Chayanda would cost around 770 billion roubles (US$21 billion).


Operators:

Gazprom: Operator with 100% interest


Contractors:

PAO Severstal: Tender to supply about 160 thousand tonnes of large diameter pipes for Gazprom\\\'s gas transmission project Power of Siberia. The pipes are to be manufactured by the Izhora Pipe Mill (IPM), a part of Severstal’s Russian Steel division. Construction of the pipeline involves supply of 14.2 meter pipes produced of K60 grade plates with 21.7 mm wall thickness with inner and outer anti-corrosion coating. IPM’s large-diameter pipes are made using self-rolled sheet produced at the 5000 Sheet Rolling Mill at the Cherepovets Steel Mill’s #3 Sheet Shop. Pipes will be delivered to the consumer by river and railway transport.

China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) (China Petroleum Pipeline): Build a section of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline under the Amur River. (September, 2016)