Offshore and Shore Sections of the Dzhubga – Lazarevskoe – Sochi gas pipeline were connected

Мая 17, 2011

LLC “STROYGAZMONTAZH”, general contractor of OJSC “Gazprom”, completed connection of the offshore and shore sections of the Dzhubga – Lazarevskoe – Sochi gas pipeline. Pipe laying vessel Bigfoot 1 performed midline tie-in (welding together two sections of the pipeline) near Kudepsta settlement.

Previously, similar works were performed near Tuapse, Dzhubga and Novomikhailovsky.
Gas pipeline testing at the Tuapse-Kudepsta section, including shore-crossing, will be performed in the second part of May 2011 (testing of the Dzhubga-Tuapse section has already been completed).
Completion of the construction of the Dzhubga – Lazarevskoe – Sochi gas pipeline, as well as running gas feeding to test the automated gas distribution station in Kudepsta is scheduled for June this year.
The Dzhubga – Lazarevskoe – Sochi gas pipeline is included in the approved by the RF Government Program of Construction of Olympic Facilities and development of Sochi as a mountain climatic resort.
Gas pipeline construction:
- will ensure reliable power supply to the capital of the winter Olympics and gas supply for the Olympic facilities;
- will give a powerful impulse to the development of provision of gas supply in Sochi and Tuapse regions, which is crucial for improvement of the population standard of living and development of the resort business;
- will significantly decrease the power deficit of the resort area of the Caucasian coast of the Black Sea.
The length of the gas pipeline is 177 km, including the offshore section of 159.5 km. The gas pipeline route runs on the bottom of the Black Sea along the costal line (at the distance of approximately 4.5 km from the shore) to the operating Kudepsta automated gas distribution station near Sochi.
Gas pipeline has exits on shore near Dzhubga, Novomikhailovsky, Tuapse and Kudepsta. At the moment Dzhubga-1, Dzhubga-2, Novomikhailovskaya and Tuapse automated gas distribution stations has been built.
Gas pipeline diameter is 20˝; its annual capacity is about 3.8 bln. m3.
Gas pipeline construction began in September 2009. It is done in the Caucasian coast of the Black Sea, one of the most climatically attractive regions, and therefore especially carefully preserved areas of Russia. For this reason special attention was paid to the environmental measures during the construction.