Last pipes sent to Yamal
The season’s last shipment of pipes for the Bovanenkovo-Ukhta pipeline has been sent from Arkhangelsk to the Yamal peninsula.
The Northern Shipping Company in Arkhangelsk has completed its third season of transportation of pipes for the underwater pipeline that is being built across the Baydaratskaya Bay. In course of the summer, the company’s vessels have completed 33 trips and delivered more than 35 kilometers of concrete-covered pipes, web site Portnews.ru reports.
The underwater pipeline is part of the 1100 km long Bovanenkovo-Ukhta pipeline, which will link the huge Bovanenkovo gas field with the Russian west-bound pipeline grid.
When the construction of the pipeline is finished in 2013, the system will consist of four parallel lines of 72 kilometers each. Three of the pipelines will deliver gas condensate, while the fourth is dedicated for communication and electricity supply.
- The first gas from the Bovanenkovo field is planned to be shipped through the pipeline in 2011, General Director of Arkhangelsk Commercial Port Vladimir Titov told BarentsObserver during a visit to the port in October 2009.
Last week Deputy Head of Gazprom Andrei Kruglov said that the launch of the gas field could be postponed if market demands do not meet expectations.
The Bovanenkovo field is one of the biggest in the gas-rich Yamal Peninsula with its 4,9 trillion cubic meters of reserves. Gazprom-subsidiary Gazprom Dobycha Nadym is responsible for the project, which is among the biggest ongoing petroleum development projects in Russia today.
