Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the complementary Power Siberia gas pipeline via video link.
Putin ordered the control room to “Get to work”.
According to Putin, this area is the largest in Eastern Siberia – recoverable reserves are 1.8 trillion cubic meters. m gas. The Kovykta – Chayanda section stretches for 804 km, connecting the Kovykta field with the Chayandinskoye field in Yakutia.
He added that Kovykta will “produce the most valuable chemical raw material, gas condensate.” Pipeline and railway infrastructures have been built for its shipment.
These facilities will help improve gas supplies to the eastern regions of the Russian Federation and will ensure the fulfillment of its obligations to export fuel to China.
“Thus, our most important gas transportation route will be put into operation along its entire length. “It will exceed 3,000 kilometers,” said Putin.
This is, as the president stressed, “a strategically important industrial complex.” It enables the extraction, transportation and processing of natural gas.
In addition, new jobs have emerged with its launch. During the video conference, he thanked the geologists, engineers, builders, workers and production managers who made the development of the Irkutsk gas production center possible.
“Such projects are very important for the country’s economy, for Russia, to strengthen its social and economic well-being in the broadest sense of the word,” Vladimir Putin said. said.
He stressed that this “promising work” not only created stable conditions in the economy, but also “improved the living conditions of millions of people” living in the eastern regions of Russia.
Thus, the Irkutsk authorities plan to increase the volume of gas consumption in the region seven times, and by 2027 to increase the level of gasification of the population by 2.2% (now this figure is 1%) by 2027. population. This was reported to TASS by the region’s Minister of Housing Policy and Energy, Anatoly Nikitin.
Alexey Miller, head of Gazprom, also attended the launch ceremony. He told Putin how many employees are involved in different fields. But he gave an approximate answer to the head of state’s question about the salary of specialists: “Tens of thousands of rubles.”
Miller also appreciated the importance of the Kovykta field and the Amur gas processing plant for the development of Russian industry: “These are our new opportunities for socio-economic development, these are our new opportunities to increase exports. And of course Russia becomes the world leader in helium production.”
According to Miller, gas from the Chayandinskoye and Kovykta fields will be processed at the Amur gas processing plant. Putin said that the design capacity of the Kovykta and Chayandinskoye fields is more than 50 billion cubic meters. m of gas per year.
The Russian president emphasized that “this is a serious resource base for the Amur gas processing plant, one of the largest and most modern in the world.”
This gas processing plant is planned to “produce ethane, propane, helium and other commodity products that are in demand in the chemical, utilities and other industries,” Putin said.