Yelets-Kursk-Kyiv Gas Pipeline

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Yelets-Kursk-Kyiv Gas Pipeline (Russian: Газопровод Елец - Курск - Киев) is a gas pipeline running from Russia to Ukraine.

Location

The pipeline transports gas from Yelets, Lipetsk Region, Russia, to Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Project Details

• Operator: Gazprom Transgaz Moscow, Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine LCC (GTSOU)
• Owner: Gazprom, Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine LCC (GTSOU)
• Parent company: JSC Mahistralni Gazoprovody Ukrainy (MGU), Gazprom
• Capacity: 14 bcm/y, 16.4 bcm/y
• Length: 297 km
• Diameter: 1220 mm
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 1981
• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Petrovsk-Elets Gas Pipeline, Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhgorod Gas Pipeline, Yelets-Kursk-Dykanka Gas Pipeline

Background

The pipeline connects to the Petrovsk-Elets Gas Pipeline in Russia.

The pipeline belongs the the Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhgorod pipeline system, which is part of the western transit corridor, also known as the Bratstvo or Brotherhood pipeline system. It also includes the Soyuz Gas Pipeline (Orenburg–Western border pipeline) and the Progress Gas Pipeline (Yamburg–Western border pipeline). The Yelets-Kursk-Kyiv Gas Pipeline enters Ukraine through the Sudzha gas metering station.

Implications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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.

As of September 2023, Gazprom supplies gas for Europe through Ukraine in the volume of 41.5 million cubic meters per day via the Sudzha gas metering station in Russia’s Kursk Region. The request for transit through the Sokhranovka gas metering station had been rejected by Ukraine.

As of September 2023, the pipeline is operating.

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.