Sobolevo-Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Gas Pipeline

This article is part of the Global Fossil Infrastructure Tracker, a project of Global Energy Monitor.

Sub-articles:

FrackSwarm portal Coal terminals Coal transport and infrastructure Oil and gas pipelines LNG terminals Pipeline construction costs Methodology and data notes

Sobolevo-Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Gas Pipeline (Russian: Газопровод Соболево - Петропавловск-Камчатский) is an operating gas pipeline in Russia.

Location

The pipeline starts in Sobolevsky District, Kamchatka Krai, Russia and runs to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka Krai, Russia.

Loading map...

{"type":"ROADMAP","minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","width":"400px","height":"300px","centre":{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":52.941359,"lon":156.585151,"icon":""},"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","strokeColor":"#FF0000","strokeOpacity":"1","strokeWeight":"2","pos":[{"lat":54.708359,"lon":155.707169},{"lat":54.700821,"lon":155.841064},{"lat":54.307711,"lon":155.956421},{"lat":53.605544,"lon":156.236572},{"lat":52.935397,"lon":156.588135},{"lat":52.898962,"lon":156.906738},{"lat":52.958566,"lon":157.214355},{"lat":53.100621,"lon":157.807617},{"lat":53.271783,"lon":158.241577},{"lat":53.023044,"lon":158.645325}]}],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"visitedicon":"","wmsoverlay":false,"zoom":6,"layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview","rotate"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"resizable":false,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"cluster":false,"clustergridsize":60,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clusteraveragecenter":true,"clusterminsize":2,"imageoverlays":[],"kml":[],"gkml":[],"searchmarkers":"","fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":false,"locations":[]}

Project Details

• Operator: Gazprom transgaz Tomsk
• Owner: Gazprom
• Parent company: Gazprom
• Capacity: 0.75 bcm/year
• Length: 392 km
• Diameter: 530 mm
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 2010
• Cost: US$2-3 billion
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Nizhne-Kvachikskoe Gas Field

Background

The pipeline was first planned in the 1990s. Construction was abandoned after the first 100 km. After the visit of Vladimir Putin and his comments on his subordinates' incompetence in 2007, construction resumed and was complete in 2010. The first time the pipeline project was estimated to cost US$200 million, and the second time it was estimated at US$2-3 billion.

The pipeline sources gas from the Nizhne-Kvachikskoe field. The gas reserves in Kamchatka fields turned out to be much less than expected. This was determined after the pipeline was built. For ten years of the pipeline's operation, the full capacity has not been met. The capacity has been declining. In 2019 they amounted to 325 million cubic meters. Some companies and residents resorted to using fuel oil (mazut) as they used to.

Environment and social impacts

Ecologists called the construction site "completely wild." Some indicators surpassed the standard values by a thousand times.

The former head of Petropavlovsk Vladimir Semchev claimed that if the gas pipeline had not been built, the cost of a kilowatt-hour in Kamchatka today would be much lower. And nature would not have suffered, because the pipe was dragged through hundreds of rivers in which salmon spawn.