Bukhara-Ural Gas Pipeline

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Bukhara-Ural Gas Pipeline (Russian: Газопровод Бухара-Урал) is an operating gas pipeline in Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Location

Bukhara-Ural I

The pipeline starts in Gazli, Uzbekistan and runs to Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.

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Bukhara-Ural II

The pipeline starts in Gazli, Uzbekistan and runs to Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.

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Aktobe Branch Pipelines I, II, III

The pipelines start at the Compressor Station 14 of the Bukhara-Ural I Gas Pipeline (1,385th km) in the Khromtay District, Aktobe Region, and run to Aktobe, Aktobe Region, Kazakhstan.

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Project Details

Bukhara-Ural I Gas Pipeline

• Operator: Gazprom, Turkmengaz, Uztransgaz, Intergas Central Asia
• Owner: Turkmengaz, Uztransgaz, Qazaqgaz
• Parent company: Gazprom, Turkmengaz, Uztransgaz, Samruk-Kazyna SWF JSC
• Capacity: 21 bcm/year (total for the pipeline)
• Length: 2,200 km
• Diameter: 1000, 1020 mm
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 1963
• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure:

Bukhara-Ural II Gas Pipeline

• Operator: Gazprom, Turkmengaz, Uztransgaz, Intergas Central Asia
• Owner: Turkmengaz, Uztransgaz, Qazaqgaz
• Parent company: Gazprom, Turkmengaz, Uztransgaz, Samruk-Kazyna SWF JSC
• Capacity: 21 bcm/year (total for the pipeline)
• Length: 2,382 km
• Diameter: 1000, 1020 mm
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 1966
• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Urengoy-Chelyabinsk Gas Pipeline

CS 14-Aktobe I, II

• Operator: Intergas Central Asia
• Owner: Qazaqgaz
• Parent company: Samruk-Kazyna SWF JSC
• Capacity: 3.92 bcm/year (total for both segments)
• Length: 158 km (I), 158 km (II)
• Diameter: 530 mm
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 1960-80s
• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Zhanazhol-Aktobe Gas Pipeline

CS 14-Aktobe III

• Operator: Intergas Central Asia
• Owner: Qazaqgaz
• Parent company: Samruk-Kazyna SWF JSC
• Capacity: 2.4 bcm/y
• Length: 165 km
• Diameter: 720 mm
• Status: Construction
• Start Year: 2025
• Cost: KZT 43.4 billion
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Zhanazhol-Aktobe Gas Pipeline

Background

The pipeline control and maintenance is carried out by Gazprom. In the fall of 2014, the gas pipeline was put into operation in the reverse mode, that is, gas was delivered in the opposite direction. Thus, Gazprom started supplying gas to the southern regions of Kazakhstan.

The pipeline has two operating branch pipelines (CS 14-Aktobe I and II) to the city of Aktobe, Aktobe Region, Kazakhstan, which is also supplied by gas from the Zhanazhol-Aktobe Gas Pipeline. In winter of 2023, they were operating at 170% of the of capacity. The pipeline start

In July 2023, construction of the third branch pipeline (CS 14-Aktobe III) commenced and is expected to end in 2025. According to the construction company, the pipeline will be built earlier - in 2024. From the connection point at 1,387 km on the Bukhara-Ural main gas pipeline, the gas pipeline route runs within the same technical corridor as the existing two branches of the CS-14-Aktobe I and II gas pipelines up to 123 km and the 10 kV power line. It then bypasses the Aktobe Reservoir from the southern side within the technical corridor of the pipeline to the Alga Gas Distribution Station up to the valve station at 136 km of the existing two branches of the CS-14-Aktobe gas pipelines with a diameter of 530 mm. As of August 2024, the construction is in progress. The project is expected to be completed in 2025.