The laying by Gazprom of new lines for pumping gas from Yamal will give an additional impetus to reduce supplies to Europe through Ukraine’s GTS. This is how Alexander Sobko, an analyst at the Center for Energy of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, commented on the information that the Russian monopolist planned to build the third line of the Bovanenkovo-Ukhta gas pipelines (69 billion cubic meters, 1110 km) and Ukhta-Torzhok (45 billion cubic meters, 973 km ). Kommersant wrote about this today with reference to Gazprom’s comprehensive plan for the development of backbone infrastructure until 2024..

The document was approved at a meeting of the Presidential Council on Strategic Development on September 24.

It is noted that the northern gas transmission corridor from Yamal (began to be built in 2008. ) the company is going to develop at an accelerated pace. Over the past 15 years - this is the main and most expensive construction of "Gazprom". Only the third line of branches can cost a corporation about 900 billion rubles.. "Construction of new lines in the Bovanenkovo-Ukhta and Ukhta-Torzhok corridor means an increase in the transportation of gas from the Yamal Peninsula fields. This is due to the increase in production at Yamal, which should compensate for the decline in production at the old West Siberian fields of Gazprom, - Sobko quotes RIA Novosti.. According to him, when the third line of the two lines is put into operation, this will have a significant impact on the gas transmission system of the Square.. “Among other things, this means that the shift in transit from the Ukrainian corridor to the new Nord Stream-1.2 routes becomes even more defined. Gazprom has already announced earlier plans for the withdrawal of a part of gas transmission facilities delivering gas to the entry points at the border of Ukraine. Now, with the construction of new lines within the northern corridor, this process will receive an additional impetus, "the expert said. Back in July, during his working visit to the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, Gazprom’s Management Board Alexey Miller stated that the development of the Yamal gas production center is “a new coordinate system for gas flows in Russia and for export”.

He called the expansion of the Northern Gas Transit Corridor a fundamentally important area of ??work for the company.. Recall, now through the gas transportation system of Ukraine, Russian gas is supplied through two gas pipelines: "Soyuz" - built in 1975-1978, the fuel comes from the Orenburg oil and gas condensate field (the length of the pipe through the Nezalezhnaya Square is 1,160 km); "Urengoy - Uzhgorod" - built in 1982-1984. , gas comes from the Urengoy gas and oil condensate field (1,160 km of pipe goes through Ukraine).