Ceremony held for launch of new gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion facilities to serve consumers in 25 Russian regions

A ceremony for the launch of new gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion facilities that will serve consumers in 25 regions across all federal districts of the Russian Federation took place today via a conference call at St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024.

Taking part in the event were Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, Sergey Tsivilev, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, Sergey Gustov, Director General of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz, and heads of administrations of Russian regions.

New gas pipeline branches with gas distribution stations, as well as inter-settlement and intra-settlement gas pipelines were built in 12 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. With this infrastructure, as many as 1,900 households and 14 boiler houses in 19 localities will be provided with the possibility of gas grid connection.

Inter alia, the first consumers were connected to gas in three Russian regions, namely in the following localities of the Republic of Adygea, the Volgograd Region and the Vologda Region: the Lipin Bor village (Vologda Region), the Chabanov village (Republic of Adygea), and the Ilmensky-1 village (Volgograd Region).

Heat supply facilities serving social structures and apartment houses were connected to gas in five regions: the Krasnodar, Primorye and Perm Territories and the Leningrad and Sakhalin Regions. For instance, the boiler houses of the Krasny Yar health resort (Perm Territory) and a kindergarten in the Kochetinskoye settlement (Krasnodar Territory), as well as municipal boiler houses in the Mikhailovka village (Primorye Territory) and the Vysokoklyuchevoy settlement (Leningrad Region) were connected to the gas grid. An automated boiler house located in the town of Dolinsk (Sakhalin Region) became the town's first one converted to natural gas.

In three regions, namely in the Republic of Karelia and the Chelyabinsk and Kirov Regions, the following industrial enterprises were converted to pipeline gas: the boiler house and equipment of the Pitkyaranta pulp mill (Republic of Karelia), a grain drying facility in the Leninskaya Iskra settlement (Kirov Region) and the boiler house of ALSO LLC in the city of Chelyabinsk (Chelyabinsk Region).

In the Republic of Altai, gas networks were built for providing gas supplies to microdistrict No. 14 in the city of Gorno-Altaisk.

In the Amur Region, the gas supply networks of the boiler house located in the Amurselmash urban district of the Belogorsk town were connected to off-grid gas supply infrastructure, more specifically, the systems for liquefied natural gas reception, storage and regasification.

In 12 Russian regions, projects on additional gas grid expansion were completed, i.e. gas pipelines were laid up to the boundaries of households and to boiler houses at no cost to the consumers.

Inter alia, pipeline gas was brought to Russian families in the Privolzhsky settlement (Saratov Region), the Nachalovo village (Astrakhan Region), the Kuznechikha village (Yaroslavl Region), the Kharbala-1 village (Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)), the Vysokaya Gora village (Republic of Tatarstan), and the Voznesenka village (Orenburg Region).

Natural gas is in demand in medical facilities and educational entities. During the event, connection to the gas grids was provided to the heat supply facilities of a kindergarten, school and medical-and-obstetric center in the Alexeevka village (Omsk Region), a kindergarten and school in the Semyonovka village (Vladimir Region), a school in the Shakhty city (Rostov Region), and a medical-and-obstetric center in the Panskoye village (Tambov Region).

Projects on additional gas grid expansion with regard to households located in gardeners' non-commercial partnerships were completed in the Staroye Basovo village (Tula Region) and the Krivaya Balka district of the Makhachkala city (Republic of Dagestan).

“A task of utmost importance set for Gazprom by Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, is to ensure that access to natural gas is provided to as many Russian people as possible. We are well on the path to achieve this. In the period since the beginning of the year alone, we have built almost 400 inter-settlement and intra-settlement gas pipelines across the country. On average, this is ten new gas infrastructure expansion facilities per week,” said Alexey Miller.