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Yamal–Europe pipeline

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General direction
  
north-south-west

Type
  
natural gas

Commissioned
  
1997

Partners
  
From
  
Runs alongside
  
Northern Lights pipeline

Length
  
4,196 km (2,607 mi)

A map showing the Yamal–Europe Natural Gas Pipeline, a 4,107 kilometers long pipeline connecting Russian natural gas fields in the Yamal Peninsula and Western Siberia with Poland and Germany through Belarus.

Country
  
Maximum discharge
  
33×10^ m/a (1.2×10^ cu ft/a)  billion cubic meters per year

Operator
  
Gazprom; Gazprom Transgaz Belaru; EuRoPol Gaz

Passes throughs
  
Vuktyl, Ukhta, Gryazovets, Torzhok, Smolensk, Minsk, Zambrów, Włocławek, Poznań

Similar
  
Blue Stream, Nord Stream, South Stream, Baltic Pipeline System, Świnoujście LNG terminal

The Yamal–Europe natural gas pipeline is a 4,196 kilometres (2,607 mi) long pipeline connecting natural gas fields in Western Siberia and in the future on the Yamal peninsula, Russia, with Germany.

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A map showing the Yamal–Europe Natural Gas Pipeline.

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History

A map showing the Yamal–Europe Natural Gas Pipeline, a 4,107 kilometers long pipeline connecting Russian natural gas fields in the Yamal Peninsula and Western Siberia with Poland and Germany through Belarus.

Planning for the Yamal–Europe pipeline started in 1992. Intergovernmental agreements between Russia, Belarus and Poland were signed in 1993. In 1994, Wingas, the joint venture of Gazprom and Wintershall, a subsidiary of BASF, started building the German section of the pipeline. The first gas was delivered to Germany through the Belarus-Polish corridor in 1997. The Belarus and Polish sections were completed in September 1999 and the pipeline reached its rated annual capacity of about 33 billion cubic metres (1.2 trillion cubic feet) of natural gas in 2005, after completion of all compressor stations.

Route

A map showing the location of Yamal–Europe Natural Gas Pipeline.

The pipeline starts at the Torzhok gas hub in Russia and is fed by the Northern Tyumen Regions (SRTO) – Torzhok gas pipeline. Its length includes around 402 kilometres (250 mi) in Russia, 575 kilometres (357 mi) in Belarus and 683 kilometres (424 mi) in Poland. The German gas system is connected to the Yamal–Europe pipeline through the JAGAL pipeline.

Map showing the major existing and proposed Russian natural gas transportation pipelines in Europe.

Notwithstanding its name, the pipeline is initially supplied by gas fields in the Nadym Pur Taz District of the Tyumen Oblast and not from Yamal peninsula. It would be supplied from the Bovanenkovo field of Yamal peninsula after construction of the 1,100 kilometres (700 mi) long Bovanenkovo-Ukhta pipeline, a part of the Yamal project.

Technical features

A map showing the Yamal–Europe Natural Gas Pipeline.

The capacity of the pipeline is 33 billion cubic metres (1.2 trillion cubic feet) of natural gas per annum. The diameter of the pipeline is 1,420 millimetres (56 in). The pressure in the pipeline is provided by 14 compressor stations.

Ownership

The Russian section of the pipeline is owned and operated by Gazprom. The Belarusian section is owned by Gazprom and operated by Gazprom Transgaz Belaru. The Polish section is owned and operated by EuRoPol Gaz S.A., a joint venture of the Polish PGNiG, Russian Gazprom (both 48% of shares) and Polish Gas-Trading S.A. (4% of shares).

Second pipeline

Since 2005, there have been plans to build the second leg of the pipeline. On 1 November 2007, the Russian minister of industry and energy Viktor Khristenko said that Russia has dropped the idea of building the second leg of a pipeline, preferring construction of the Nord Stream pipeline. As of April 2013, Russia has shown interest in reviving the project, with an estimated $5 billion investment that could lead to the completion of the pipeline by 2019.

References

Yamal–Europe pipeline Wikipedia