Minsk-Kaliningrad Interconnection Gas Pipeline

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Minsk-Kaliningrad Interconnection Gas Pipeline (Russian: Газопровод «Минск — Вильнюс — Каунас — Калининград», МВКК) is an operating natural gas pipeline running from Belarus to the exclave of Russia through Lithuania.

Location

The pipeline runs from Minsk, Belarus through the Belarus-Lithuania border, Vilnius, Kaunas, and Šakiai to Kaliningrad, Russia.

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Project Details

• Operator: Gazprom,Ambergrid
• Owner: Gazprom
• Parent Company: Gazprom
• Capacity: 2.5 bcm/year
• Length: 155 km (Russia)
• Diameter: 500 mm, 530 mm
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 1985
• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure:

Background

The initial 155-km section of the pipeline through the Kaliningrad region was commissioned in 1985. In 2009 Gazprom commissioned a second segment and increased the capacity of the pipeline from 1.4 bcm/y to 2.5 bcm/y. In Russia, gas from the pipeline is stored in the Kaliningrad underground gas storage (UGS) facility, which was commissioned in September 2013, Gazprom's first facility that stores gas in salt caverns.