Russia: Gazprom Launches Gas Supply and Gasification Facilities on Sakhalin

The Sakhalin Oblast hosted Saturday the celebrations dedicated to commissioning of the top-priority gas supply and gasification facilities to convey natural gas to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Taking part in the event were Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister, Viktor Ishaev, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal Okrug, Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Alexander Khoroshavin, Governor of the Sakhalin Oblast.

“Natural gas has a much more important mission in the Far East than mere gasification of the region. Gazprom tackles a number of crucial challenges at the same time in the Far Eastern federal constituents, including the Sakhalin Oblast, through the use of gas produced offshore Sakhalin.

Firstly, Gazprom’s projects will reinforce the Sakhalin energy system. Moreover, utilization of natural gas as a most eco-friendly and technologically enabling fossil fuel instead of coal at the combined heat and power plant will substantially improve the environmental situation in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Gazprom’s resource base buildup on the Sakhalin shelf will underpin sustainable gasification of and gas supply to the Sakhalin Oblast, as well as the Primorsky and Khabarovsk Krais, and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast,” noted Alexander Ananenkov.

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Source: Gazprom, March 21, 2011;