Gazprom has commissioned the first phase of its Kaliningrad underground gas storage facility (UGS). Two gas tanks with a total working capacity of 52 mcm and maximum deliverability of 4.8 mcm/d of gas (average gas consumption in the Region is 5.9 mcm/d of gas) are ready to operate at the Kaliningrad UGS facility. A total of five independent tanks with an aggregate working capacity of 261 mcm will be constructed at the UGS facility. Later on, the regional consumers will receive up to 12 mcm/d of gas.
In 2009 Gazprom increased the throughput of the Minsk – Vilnius – Kaunas – Kaliningrad gas pipeline almost twofold – to 2.5 bcm/year as well as expanded the Krasnoznamenskaya compressor station. As part of the Kaliningrad region Gasification Program, Gazprom has constructed 42 inter-settlement gas pipelines with a total length of 400 km in the Kaliningrad Region starting from 2002, thus allowing to convert 24 boiler houses to gas and prepare over 5,500 household for gas supplies. As a result, the regional gasification level soared 23.2% to 64.2%, which is commensurate with Russia's average rate (64.4%). Moreover Gazprom is considering building an LNG terminal on the Baltic Coast of the Kaliningrad region.
Source: Gazprom