Hajigabul-Shirvanovka-Mozdok Pipeline

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Hajigabul-Shirvanovka-Mozdok Gas Pipeline (Azeri: Hacıqabul - Şirvanovka - Mozdok boru kəməri), also known as Mozdok–Makhachkala–Kazi Magomed Gas Pipeline (Russian: газопровод "Казимагомед-Моздок") is an operating gas pipeline running from Azerbaijan to Russia.

Location

The pipeline runs from Kazi Magomed, Azerbaijan through Makhachkala, Novo Filya to Mozdok, Russia.

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Project Details

• Operator: SOCAR; Gazprom
• Owner: SOCAR; Gazprom
• Parent Company: SOCAR; Gazprom
• Capacity: 10 bcm/year
• Length: 680 km
• Diameter: 1220 mm
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 1982
• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Hajigabul-Gazakh-Saguramo Pipeline, Hajiqabul–Astara–Abadan Gas Pipeline, North Caucasus-Transcaucasia Gas Pipeline, Mozdok-Nevinnomyssk Gas Pipeline, Novopskov-Aksai-Mozdok Gas Pipeline

Background

From 1983, this pipeline was used to transport gas from Russia to Azerbaijan. Since 2007, following an increase in the volume of gas produced by Azerbaijan (beyond national demand), this pipeline has not been used intensively.

According to agreements on the export of certain volumes of gas produced in Azerbaijan to Russia in 2010-2014, the Hajigabul-Mozdok Main Pipeline has been used for the export of gas in the opposite direction, from Azerbaijan to Russia.

History

From 1970–1979, Southern Caucasus republics of the Soviet Union were supplied with natural gas from Iran. After the Iranian Revolution Iranian supplies were cut off. To replace natural gas from Iran, pipelines from Western Siberia and Orenburg through Novopskov were planned. For this purpose, the North Caucasus–Moscow line was reversed and expanded further south by construction of the Mozdok–Makhachkala–Kazi Magomed and Mozdok–Tbilisi–Kazi Magomed pipelines. The Mozdok–Makhachkala–Kazi Magomed pipeline was completed in 1983.

In 2004, the Mozdok Kazimagomed Pipeline was connected to the Makat North Caucasus Pipeline, via the Kumli Kizlyar Babayurt Aksai Pipeline. All three pipelines are a part of Russia’s United Gas Transmission System.

Also in 2004, twenty-one people were injured after the pipeline exploded in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, which borders war-torn Chechnya. Police suspect the blast near the regional capital, Makhachkala, was the result of sabotage. The blast left nine Dagestani towns without gas and affected supplies to neighboring Azerbaijan.

In 2007 Azerbaijan started its own gas production and the pipeline between Russia and Azerbaijan became largely inactive. In the summer of 2008, Gazprom started negotiations with the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) on buying natural gas from Azerbaijan at market prices based on a long term agreement between the two countries. It had been announced earlier that Russia was willing to diversify its imports and purchase natural gas from Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz gas field.

On 29 June 2009, during an official visit of the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to Azerbaijan, governments of both countries signed a deal on exports of Azerbaijani gas to Russia. As per this agreement, Russia would be paying Azerbaijan $350 per thousand cubic meters while paying only $300 per thousand cubic meters for Uzbek and Turkmen gas. Under the terms of the deal, Azerbaijan is to sell Russia 0.5 billion cubic meters annually with a possibility of increase of the volume to 1.5 in the future. On 14 October 2009, President of State Oil Company of Azerbaijan, Rovnag Abdullayev, and CEO of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, finalized the deal. The agreement oversees the exports for 2010-2014 with a potential for extension. Azerbaijani natural gas would be transported via the Baku-Novo Filya pipeline, which was previously used for transporting natural gas from Russian to Azerbaijan, until 2007, when the shipments were stopped by Azerbaijan as a result of successfully increasing production to meet its own domestic needs. On January 21, during a meeting between Alexei Miller and Rovnag Abdullayev, Gazprom expressed its willingness to purchase more gas from Azerbaijan. The parties agreed to double the amount of gas to be transported from an initially planned 500 million cm to 1 billion in 2010, and to 2 billion cm in 2011. In 2007 Azerbaijan became an exporter of natural gas, starting with its shipments to Georgia and Turkey.

Technical features

The overall length of the pipeline is 680 km (423 mi), of which 200 km (123 km) is in Azerbaijan. The pipe diameter is 1220 mm (48 in) and it had original capacity of 13 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year. The Azerbaijani section is also known as the Kazi Magomed–Novo Filya or Baku–Novo Filya, and it connects Baku with the Novo Filya gas metering utility on the Russian side of the Azerbaijan-Russia border. The pipeline has a gas metering station in Şirvanovka, built in 2003. In Mozdok, the pipeline is connected with the North Caucasus–Moscow line.

Political perspective

Russia will be paying Azerbaijan an estimated $350 per thousand cubic meters which is the highest price Russia had ever paid for gas imports from Caucasus and Central Asia (compared to $300 per tcm for Uzbek and Turkmen gas), a potential deterrent to other gas export projects coming from or through Azerbaijan such as Nabucco or White Stream. Up to 2007, Azerbaijan was a Russian gas importer until the country's production of 10.3 bcm per year became sufficient to meet its internal demand of 8.3 bcm. Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz field is to produce approximately 9 bcm per year, whilst Shah Deniz II will produce an estimated 10-12 bcm per year when it becomes operational.

Security

During the 1990s–2000s, the pipeline was attacked several times in Chechnya and Dagestan. On 12 January 2010, the pipeline was damaged at its 496th kilometer by a bomb blast on the branch line supplying Derbent and Derbentsky District in Dagestan, causing a fire and leaving 214,000 people without gas supply.

Articles and resources

References

Wikipedia also has an article on Mozdok–Makhachkala–Kazi Magomed pipeline (Mozdok-Makhachkala-Kazi Magomed Gas Pipeline). This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License].