Gazprom has confirmed that the group is still investing in major projects, including new gas wells, new compression stations, new gas pipelines, LNG projects and underground gas storages (UGS).
As part of its Eastern Gas Programme, Gazprom is currently expanding the operating Comprehensive Gas Treatment Unit (CGTU) that feeds gas from the Chayandinskoye field in Yakutia into the Power of Siberia gas pipeline to China, with the aim of raising the field's production to its design capacity of 25 bcm/year. Gazprom also plans to drill 11 rigs at the Kovyktinskoye field in the Irkutsk Region, to complete the construction of a new compressor station on the Power of Siberia gas pipeline in 2020 and to start building the Kovyktinskoye - Chayandinskoye section in the third quarter of 2020. The group plans to complete its Amur Gas Processing Plant (currently 58% complete) and to continue the expasion of the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas pipeline.
In the Yamal Peninsula, Gazprom aims to commission 52 new gas wells at the Bovanenkovskoye field in 2020 and to connect the Kharasaveyskoye field with the gas pipeline stretching to Bovanenkovskoye. In Northern Russia, the group is also building new compression stations at the Bovanenkovo – Ukhta 2 and Ukhta – Torzhok 2 gas pipelines and a new LNG production and export project at Portovaya.
Over the next 10 years, Gazprom will continue expanding the Kaliningradskoye and Volgogradskoye UGS sites and design the Novomoskovskoye UGS facility. The group plans to start soon the construction of the Shatrovskoye UGS in the Kurgan Region and of the Arbuzovskoye UGS in Tatarstan.