Power of Siberia

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Kraft Siberia ( Russian Сила Сибири , Sila Sibiri ) is a natural gas pipeline from the Russian republic of Yakutia and the Irkutsk Oblast to the Pacific coast that has been under construction since 2014 . When completed, it will run along the East Siberia-Pacific pipeline , in which crude oil is transported.

The pipeline, with a capacity of around 61 billion cubic meters per year, is primarily intended for gas transport to the People's Republic of China , with which Russia signed a 30-year supply contract in May 2014. Additional quantities are to be sold via an LNG terminal in Vladivostok in the Asia-Pacific region.

The opening of the pipeline was planned for 2019 [out of date] and the construction costs are estimated at around 55 billion euros. When construction began in September 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin described the pipeline as currently the largest construction project in the world. Its cost is about five times that of the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline , which is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2020 (originally 2019).

On December 2, 2019, the first 2157 km long section from the Chayandinskoye deposit ( Russian: Чаяндинское ) (Yakutia) to Blagoveshchensk went into operation, with the first export volumes to China. The piece from the Kowyktinskoje ( Russian Ковыктинское ) (Irkutsk) deposit to Chajandinskoje is still under construction.

The pipeline runs through swamp soils, mountains, seismically active areas, over sections with permafrost and rocky soil.

Question of profitability

In addition to economic, the project is of strategic importance. After the deterioration in Russia's relations with Europe, after the coup in Kiev in Ukraine and the Russian approach to the Crimean crisis in 2014, Russia was looking for new customers. Even when the contract was signed, the Western press suspected that the project would hardly bring any profit for Russia and that the economic would be more of a "minor matter", that is, the price would be a "political friendship price". In the spring of 2018, the independent Novaya Gazeta published the opinion of an analyst that Gazprom was countering a “complete commercial failure”.

Other analysts, on the other hand, are convinced of the profitability of the project. The concluded supply contract results in the average European price level and also provides for a large advance payment. The entire region will also benefit from the project through jobs and an improved infrastructure. Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov and Gazprom chief Alexei Miller said they have no doubts about the profitability of the project.

The large Amur gas processing plant near Blagoweschtschensk separates the natural admixtures of other valuable gases such as helium, ethane, propane and butane.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chayandinskoye deposit. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Gas pipeline from Siberia to China starts operation orf.at, December 2, 2019, accessed December 2, 2019.
  3. ↑ deposit Kowyktinskoje. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Kasim Colakoglu: Geostrategic Energy Policy of Turkey: Turkey as the Energy Hub of the Future Verlag diplom.de, 2015, ISBN 978-3958206687 , page 16
  5. ↑ China orders, Gazprom pays , NZZ, November 10, 2014
  6. ^ The price of friendship , FAZ, May 21, 2014
  7. ↑ Пресса России: контракт с КНР - выгодная сделка? , BBC Russian, May 22, 2014
  8. ↑ Gazprom loses, and with it Russia , Novaya Gazeta, May 24, 2018
  9. ↑ Россия начинает строить “Силу Сибири” // Nezavisimaya Gazeta, December 30, 2014
  10. ↑ «Сила Сибири» - двигатель экономики - ГосИндекс , GosIndex, September 4, 2014
  11. ↑ Окупится ли строительство газопровода «Сила Сибири»? С. П. Обухов получил ответ от Игоря Шувалова , KPRF.ru, November 13, 2014
  12. ↑ "Газпром" уверен в рентабельности газопровода "Сила Сибири" , Rossiyskaya Gazeta, February 17, 2018
  13. ↑ Газета 2000: Сила Сибири , November 30, 2019