Gazprom has completed construction of 98 km of a natural gas pipeline that will link Kovyktinskoye field to Chayandinskoye field in Yakutia. The planned 803-km pipeline is an extension of Gazprom’s Power of Siberia system, which currently delivers Chayandinskoye gas to China.
The company describes work to bring its 1.8-trillion cu m Kovyktinskoye field online as proceeding according to schedule, with development drilling continuing, filling works underway for the highest-priority well clusters, and two gas treatment plants under construction. Gazprom plans to start shipping gas from the field through Power of Siberia in late 2022.
Power of Siberia began deliveries in late 2019, entering China under the Amur River near Blagoveshchensk (OGJ Online, Dec. 6, 2019).
