First 100 km of gas trunkline built in Primorsky Territory.

VLADIVOSTOK, May 11 (Itar-Tass) - The first 100 kilometres of a
Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok gas trunkline have been welded in
Primorsky (maritime) Territory (PT).
Sixty-nine km of pipes have been already put into trenches.
Simultaneously with the welding of pipes, builders clear up and prepare
gas pipeline route for pipeplaying, an official at the PT administration's
energy department told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
The construction of the pipeline was started in September last year.
In all, 561 km of pipes are to be laid. The pipeline will run across the
territories of ten municipal entities. The overall consumption of gas in
PT is estimated to amount to 4,600 million cubic metres a year.
The first phase of the project is to be put on stream in the fourth
quarter of 2011, which will make it possible to transfer the
Vladivostok-based Tets-1, Tets-2, and Severnaya (north) central heating
and power plants to the use of gas, and install gas supply to energy
facilities on the Russky (Russian) Island and to the Sollers autoworks.
In order to provide gas for the facilities intended for the 2012
summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum on the Russky
Island, the gas pipeline will be laid beneath the bed of the Eastern
Bosporus Gulf. Inclined-and-directional drilling will be used in the
pipeline construction. These operations are to begin in the coming months.
The carrying capacity of the gas pipeline will be 27,500 million cu.
m. of gas. Provision has been also made for the possibility of extending
the pipeline. Due to its construction, the Yakutia-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok
gas pipeline transportation system will supply gas from the Chayadin
gasfield in 2012.