Gazprom has started to fill gas into its Power of Siberia gas pipeline to China, in line with its schedule (first gas deliveries to China in December 2019). The Russian gas giant is currently starting up operations at its Chayandinskoye field in Yakutia in Siberia and progressing with commissioning the field's core facilities. Gazprom has completed the drilling of 176 gas production wells and is ready to fill gas from the Chayandinskoye field into the Power of Siberia gas pipeline. In addition, the Kovyktinskoye field located in the Irkutsk region will start feeding gas into Power of Siberia in early 2023.
The 3,000 km-long Power of Siberia gas pipeline is meant to connect the Yakutia and Irkutsk production centres to supply the Russian Far-East and Chinese regions. As agreed in 2014, Russia will deliver 38 bcm/year of gas to China over a 30-year period using the pipeline. Moreover, in July 2019, China began to build a 1,110 km gas pipeline section to the project between Changling (in the province of Jilin) and Yongqing (in the Hebei province). The extension will be completed in October 2020.
Source: Gazprom