PJSC "RussNeft" has put the gas pipeline from Tagrinskoye field in Khanty-Mansyisk Autonomous District (KhMAO) to Varioganskaya compressor station into commercial operation, the Company’s statement says.
The design capacity of the pipeline is 0.7 billion cubic meters per year. The introduction of the new line, together with the existing infrastructure, will make it possible to supply gas in the amount of up to 2 billion cubic meters per year. Investments in the project amounted to more than 3 billion rubles, according to the Company.
The gas pipeline will be used to transport associated petroleum gas (APG) from Tagrinskoye field.
The main gas supplies through the new pipeline are under long-term contracts concluded until 2025 with companies that are buyers of APG. For the entire period of the contract obligations, the deliveries are planned in the amount of more than 14.8 billion cubic meters of gas, according to the press release of the Company.