The driver left the fields. What is known about the explosion in the natural gas pipeline in Chuvashia An explosion occurred in the gas pipeline in Chuvashia, 3 people died

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On Tuesday, December 20, in Chuvashia, dead fire in gas pipeline TASS referring to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the republic.

“A leak occurred near the village of Yambakhtino, followed by a fire in an underground gas pipeline”

– said the agency’s source.

Chuvashia emergency services received a message about a fire in the Vurnarsky district at 13:44 Moscow time. clarified at the Ministry of Emergencies.

The press service of the administration of the regional head Oleg Nikolaev later reported that an explosion occurred on the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline.

Three people dead During an explosion at a gas pipeline in Chuvashia, reports DEA News With reference to Olga Smirnova, head of the Kalininsky rural settlement.

Also, at least one other person was injured. According to the information given by the emergency services of the region, 37 firefighters and rescuers and 13 units of special equipment are working at the emergency scene.

As the Telegram channel wrote PureeThe names of the gas workers who died in Chuvashia are Sergey Nikolaev, Alexander Maksimov and Yuri Ilyin.

“Yesterday they came to the exploded gas pipeline from Krasnoarmeysk. Today they had to fill the pipe between the villages of Kalinino and Shumerlya with gas. They can leave work as early as 01:30 at the latest. But we decided to finish the job.

At 13:30 we went down to the pipe section of KamAZ, where we spent the night, and started filling gas. The driver of the car, 36-year-old Yevgeny Dmitriev, first stopped on the street with the gas workers, but got into the car to warm up. Then there was an explosion.

Yevgeny survived – he had burns on his hands. In the car, standing six meters from the explosion site, a glass flew out, fell on the driver – and the driver entered the cabin. Then he went out into the field and heard another explosion. KamAZ caught fire. Eugene went from the field to the nearest village, ”says the publication.

The administration of the Vurnarsky district of the Chuvash Republic said “Newspaper.Ru”It was stated that the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod natural gas pipeline, where the explosion occurred, is 3 km away from the nearest settlement.

“The accident did not occur in the village. This field is located three kilometers from the village of Shorkasy in Vurnar district. The Administration’s Department of Special Programs reported high pressure on the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline.

Urengoy – Pomary – Uzhgorod is an export main gas pipeline built by the USSR in 1983 to supply natural gas from fields in northern Western Siberia to consumers in the republics of the Soviet Union and the countries of Central and Western Europe. One of the largest projects in the development of Tyumen oil.

Yield – 32 billion cubic meters. m natural gas per year (design). The actual yield is 28 billion cubic meters. m per year The pipeline diameter is 1420 mm.

It was reported that the part of the pipeline that supplies gas to Europe, which was damaged after the accident in Chuvashia, was closed. blocked. Gazprom Transgaz Nizhny Novgorod said that the fire was localized, gas transportation was “provided precisely through parallel gas pipelines.”

The natural gas pipeline was built with loans repaid to proceeds from subsequent natural gas deliveries (gas pipe agreement) from Western European (Germany) and Japanese banks. The official opening ceremony of the natural gas pipeline took place in France. It passed through the first gas pipeline in January 1984.

The pipeline crosses the Ural Mountain Range and more than 600 rivers, including the Ob, Volga, Don and Dnieper.

The total length of the gas pipeline is 4,451 km, and its length across Ukraine is 1,160 km.

There are 42 compressor stations on the natural gas pipeline route. Currently, the gas pipeline crosses the Russia-Ukraine border in the region of the Sudzha GIS (Kursk region). In the Ukrainian section there are nine compressor stations (Romny, Grebenkovskaya, Sofievka, Stavishenskaya, Ilyinetska, Bar, Gusyatin, Bogorodchany, Golyatin).

On the territory of Ukraine, gas is transported mainly to the Uzhgorod compressor station on the Ukraine-Slovakia border and to a lesser extent to the compressor stations on the border of Hungary (Beregovo GIS) and Romania (Tekovo GIS).

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