Gazprom has completed filling gas into its Power of Siberia gas pipeline, sending gas to the gas metering station near Blagoveshchensk, at the Russian border with China. Gazrprom will now work on feeding gas into the transborder crossing under the Amur River to start gas deliveries to China.
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. The project is progressing in line with its schedule (first gas deliveries to China in December 2019). Gazprom 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.
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.