New capacities at the Kaliningradskoye UGSF will be put into operation before the end of the year

28.11.2017

Today St. Petersburg hosted a working meeting of the Chairman of the Board of PJSC "Gazprom" Alexey Miller and Kaliningrad Region Governor Anton Alikhanov.
St. Petersburg hosted a working meeting between Alexey Miller and Kaliningrad Region Governor Anton Alikhanov

The parties reviewed the implementation of the Cooperation Agreement. Particular attention was paid to the work of "Gazprom" aimed at improving the reliability of gas supply to the Kaliningrad region. In 2017, the company spent 33.6 billion rubles on the development of the gas supply system in the region.

that at present, in accordance with the schedule, the capacity of the Kaliningrad underground gas storage (UGS) is being increased. In December 2017, it is planned to put into operation two new underground reservoirs, which, if they are completely filled, will more than double the volume of the operating gas reserve in UGS facilities вЂ” from 70 to 156 million cubic meters m. To diversify the ways of delivering gas to the Kaliningrad region, Gazprom continues construction of a marine terminal for the regasification of liquefied natural gas. The implementation of the projects will significantly strengthen the energy security of the region.
New capacities at the Kaliningradskoye UGSF will be commissioned before the end of the year

In October 2017, Gazprom completed the construction of two gas pipeline branches to the cities of Gusev and Sovetsk. This increased the reliability of gas supply to new thermal power plants вЂ” Mayakovskaya and Talakhovskaya.

Issues of gasification of the Kaliningrad region were considered at the meeting. It was noted that the active work of Gazprom in this direction allowed to increase the level of gasification in 2002-2016 from 41% to 80.1% (average in Russia вЂ” 67.2%).

In 2017, the company continues to implement construction projects two inter-settlement gas pipelines in the Krasnoznamensky district. At the same time, work is underway to design two more gas pipelines вЂ” in the Krasnoznamensky and Nesterovsky districts.

The parties discussed the prospects for the development of the gas motor fuel market in the region. Currently, there are four gas filling facilities of Gazprom in the Kaliningrad region. вЂ” one automobile gas-filling compressor station (Kaliningrad) and three mobile gas filling trucks (PAGZ), which are based on specially built sites вЂ” in the cities of Bagrationovsk, Chernyakhovsk and Sovetsk. By the end of 2017, the company plans to complete the construction of a site for the placement of a gas storage facility on Sovetsky Prospekt in Kaliningrad.
GazpromВ» in the development of sports infrastructure in the Kaliningrad region. It was noted that within the framework of the Gazprom вЂ” children" 45 sports grounds and 26 school stadiums were built in the region (of which 10 grounds and 16 stadiums were commissioned in 2017).
New capacities at the Kaliningradskoye UGSF will be put into operation before the end of the year

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Between "Gazprom" and the Government of the Kaliningrad Region, there are agreements on cooperation and on expanding the use of natural gas as a motor fuel, the Agreement on gasification, the program for the development of gas supply and gasification until 2021.

An agreement on mutual understanding and cooperation was signed in the implementation of the construction project LNG regasification terminal in the Kaliningrad region on the coast of the Baltic Sea.

In 2002-2016, Gazprom invested about 2.8 billion rubles in the gasification of the Kaliningrad region, built 51 inter-settlement gas pipelines with a total length of more than 480 km.