Led by Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, Gazprom’s delegation finalized its business trip to the Far Eastern regions.

Today in the Khabarovsk Krai, Gazprom’s experts visited the construction site of the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas trunkline, one of the prioritized facilities as part of the Eastern Gas Program.

In Khabarovsk Alexander Ananenkov held a meeting on the topical issues of the gas pipeline construction. Taking part in the meeting were Yaroslav Golko, Member of the Management Committee – Head of the Investment and Construction Department of Gazprom, heads and experts from Gazprom’s specialized subdivisions, subsidiaries and contracting agencies.

Alexander Ananenkov emphasized the strategic significance of the project for shaping the Unified Gas supply System in Eastern Russia, as well as for socio-economic development of Russia’s Far Eastern regions.

The Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas pipeline will be built on a tight deadline – the first start-up complex will be commissioned as early as in the third quarter of 2011. Meeting this challenge requires concentration of resources and mobilization of contracting agencies’ efforts.

Based on the 2009 results it is projected to weld a 312-kilometer-long section of the pipeline. Over 400 kilometers of pipe products were supplied by Russian plants in 2009. However, it was emphasized at the meeting that the pipeline construction paces and volumes of pipe products supply had to be increased.

Currently, about a thousand units of road-building equipment and some two thousand construction workers are engaged in the gas pipeline construction. The trunkline is being simultaneously constructed at six sections. As more pipes are supplied to the construction sites, the number of sections will be increased.

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