Roadmap through 2032 signed for expanding gas infrastructure of Belogorsk in Amur Region
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A Schedule (roadmap) through 2032 for gas infrastructure expansion in the town of Belogorsk, Amur Region, was signed today by Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Vasily Orlov, Governor of the Amur Region, at the Eastern Economic Forum 2024 in Vladivostok.
The document was drawn up pursuant to the instruction of Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation.
Under the roadmap, the parties will define the projected gas demand and draw up a list of specific consumers present in Belogorsk. The fuel-and-energy balance plan (FEBP) of the Amur Region will be adjusted taking into account said data, as well as the economically justified price for gas and the principles of inter-fuel competition. On the basis of the adjusted FEBP, the parties will develop a program for gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion in the Amur Region for 2026–2030. The program will include the activities to supply gas to the consumers in Belogorsk.
At present, Gazprom is implementing the 2021–2025 program for gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion in the Amur Region.
A number of facilities envisaged by the program have already been built. For instance, in the period from early 2021, Gazprom put into operation a gas pipeline branch, the Svobodny gas distribution station (GDS) and two inter-settlement gas pipelines. These facilities feed gas to the municipal boiler house in the town of Tsiolkovsky and three boiler houses in the town of Svobodny, thus creating conditions for additional gas grid expansion for the regional consumers.
This year saw the completion of a gas pipeline branch together with the Blagoveshchensk GDS and an inter-settlement gas pipeline stretching from the GDS to the city of Blagoveshchensk and the village of Chigiri. A new municipal gas boiler house in Blagoveshchensk is among the first consumers to be connected to the newly built gas networks.
In addition, the region's first small-scale Complex for natural gas liquefaction was built to provide off-grid gas supplies to the boiler house in the Amurselmash urban district of Belogorsk.
The Company continues to build gas pipelines stretching to the village of Verkhneblagoveshchenskoye, the settlement of Aeroport in the Blagoveshchensky District and a gold mining enterprise in the Magdagachinsky District, as well as distribution networks in Blagoveshchensk, Svobodny and Chigiri. Design development works are underway for a pipeline branch complete with a GDS and an inter-settlement gas pipeline stretching to the town of Tynda.
Background
The Eastern Economic Forum 2024 is taking place on September 3–6 in Vladivostok. The main theme of this year's Forum is “Far East 2030. Combining Strengths to Create New Potential.”
Gazprom and the Government of the Amur Region are bound by the Cooperation Agreement. In September 2020, the gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion program was signed for the period of 2021–2025. In 2022, the document was updated. In 2023, pursuant to the instruction given by Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, the program was expanded to include facilities for gas infrastructure expansion in the urban territory of Tynda through 2027.
In November 2023, on the basis of the outcomes of a meeting on the development of Far Eastern cities, Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, approved a list of instructions, including that to establish a schedule for gas infrastructure expansion in the town of Belogorsk (Amur Region) through 2032.
Near the town of Svobodny in the Amur Region, Gazprom is building the Amur Gas Processing Plant, one of the world's largest facilities of this kind. The plant will have a design capacity of 42 billion cubic meters of gas per year. The Amur GPP will be the world's largest helium producer. After the plant reaches its full capacity, its helium output will be at 60 million cubic meters.
Under the Gazprom for Children project, the following activities were completed in the Amur Region: construction of sports and health centers – two in the city of Blagoveshchensk and one each in the Tambovka village, the Magdagachi settlement, and the Tynda town (the new sports and health center in Tynda was launched in 2024); construction of multi-purpose sports grounds and school stadiums; support in the renovation and repair of sports facilities (including the renovation of the sports complex with a swimming pool in Svobodny).
A sports and health center with an ice rink in Belogorsk and a sports and health center with a universal gym in the village of Yekaterinoslavka are currently under construction; and four stadiums are undergoing major repairs under the Program.
A church complex was built in Svobodny with the funds provided by Gazprom.