Ivatsevichy-Kobryn-Dolyna Gas Pipeline

The Ivatsevichy-Kobryn-Dolyna Gas Pipeline, also referred to as Ivatsevichy-Dolyna gas pipeline (Russian: Газопровод Ивацевичи-Кобрин-Долина, also Ивацевичи-Долина) is a mothballed gas pipeline running from Belarus to Ukraine.

Location

The pipeline starts in Ivatsevichy, Belarus, passes through the Kobryn gas metering station, Belarus, and ends in Dolyna, Ukraine.

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Project Details

Ivatsevichy-Kobryn-Dolyna I

• Operator: Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine LCC (GTSOU), Gazprom Transgaz Belarus
• Owner: Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine LCC (GTSOU), Gazprom
• Parent company: JSC Mahistralni Gazoprovody Ukrainy (MGU), Gazprom
• Capacity: 29 bcm/y (total for the pipeline)
• Length: 146 km each
• Diameter: 1,220 mm
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 1976
• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Soyuz Gas Pipeline, Torzhok-Minsk-Ivatsevichy Gas Pipeline

Ivatsevichy-Kobryn-Dolyna II

• Operator: Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine LCC (GTSOU), Gazprom Transgaz Belarus
• Owner: Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine LCC (GTSOU), Gazprom
• Parent company: JSC Mahistralni Gazoprovody Ukrainy (MGU), Gazprom
• Capacity: 29 bcm/y (total for the pipeline
• Length: 146 km
• Diameter: 1,220 mm
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 1981
• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Soyuz Gas Pipeline, Torzhok-Minsk-Ivatsevichy Gas Pipeline

Background

The pipeline has two segments, which run parallel to each other. In May 2023, Gazprom Transgaz Belarus announced plans to build a new pipeline from Luninets to Mikashevichi (56.24 km) in order to increase reliability of gas supply to consumers in the Brest and Gomel regions of Belarus, perform repair and maintenance of the operating pipelines and also connect two independent gas transmission systems: the Torzhok-Dolyna Gas Pipeline and the Ivatsevichy-Dolyna Gas Pipeline. Public hearings were planned to be held in July-August 2023, and the final decision is expected to be made in October-November 2023.

Implications of the Russian invasion

After Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Ukraine halted direct natural gas imports from Russia and replaced those imports with natural gas from European countries. Much of the natural gas imported from Europe, however, originates in Russia and travels into Ukraine through reverse flows from central and eastern European countries.

Gazprom announced the dismantling of gas pipelines to Ukraine in 2016. The Russian holding planned to eliminate 4.3 thousand kilometers of pipelines and decommission 62 compressor stations by 2020, 10.7 thousand kilometers of pipelines by 2030.

Yelets-Kursk-Dykanka Gas Pipeline has been used to supply Ukrainian territories exclusively, with no further transportation to Europe. Therefore, the pipeline is partially mothballed along the Ukrainian-Belarusian segment.

Change of the operator & owner in gas transmission system of Ukraine

In 2019 the personnel of the Branch “Gas TSO of Ukraine” the division of JSC Ukrtransgaz, responsible for natural gas transportation, was transferred to LLC Gas TSO of Ukraine and under the Service Level Agreement concluded between LLC Gas TSO of Ukraine and JSC Ukrtransgaz, LLC Gas TSO of Ukraine provided services covering all types of operation, maintenance and repair works to ensure safe and efficient operation of the main GTS facilities.

In the same year pursuant to Art. 24 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Natural Gas Market”, the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities (hereinafter – NEURC) adopted a final decision supporting certification of LLC Gas TSO of Ukraine according to the ISO model, and also issued the license for the right to carry out activities for the transmission of natural gas allowing the company to perform its functions starting with January 1, 2020 (Resolution of 24.12.2019 No.3011).

In 2020 LLC Gas TSO of Ukraine was fully separated from Naftogaz Group and 100% stake in the authorized capital was transferred to the state-owned company JSC Mahistralni Gazoprovody Ukrainy (MGU). JSC MGU owns 100% of the shares of LLC Gas TSO of Ukraine.