The Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom has started work to connect two main gas pipelines in Eastern Russia, namely the Power of Siberia pipeline and the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok pipeline. The new Belogorsk-Khabarovsk pipeline, connecting the other two, will run for over 800 km along the border with China once completed. The implementation of this new connecting pipeline is part of Russia’s Eastern Gas Supply System project, which plans for the development gas transport facilities in Eastern Russia and their further integration with the gas infrastructure in the western part of the country.
The 1,822 km Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok pipeline, commissioned in 2011, has a maximum capacity of 36.5 bcm/year, while the 3,968 km Power of Siberia gas pipeline, which connects Russia and China, started gas deliveries in 2019 and has a maximum capacity of 38 bcm/year. Gas supply from Russia to China via the Power of Siberia pipeline reached 15 bcm in 2022, and the volumes are expected to grow yearly. Russia is also currently developing the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, which is expected to have a capacity of 50 bcm/year.