Minsk-Kaliningrad Interconnection Gas Pipeline

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Minsk-Kaliningrad Interconnection Gas Pipeline (Russian: Газопровод «Минск — Вильнюс — Каунас — Калининград», МВКК) is an operating natural gas pipeline running from Belarus to the exclave of Russia through Lithuania.

Location

The pipeline runs from Minsk, Belarus through the Belarus-Lithuania border, Vilnius, Kaunas, and Šakiai to Kaliningrad, Russia.

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Project Details

• Operator: Gazprom,Ambergrid
• Owner: Gazprom
• Parent Company: Gazprom
• Capacity:
• Length: 155 km (Russia)
• Diameter: 500 mm, 530 mm, 1220 mm
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 1985
• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Ivatsevichy-Kobryn-Dolyna Gas Pipeline, Torzhok-Minsk-Ivatsevichy Gas Pipeline

Background

The initial 155-km section of the pipeline through the Kaliningrad region was commissioned in 1985. In 2009 Gazprom commissioned a second segment and increased the capacity of the pipeline from 1.4 bcm/y to 2.5 bcm/y. In Russia, gas from the pipeline is stored in the Kaliningrad underground gas storage (UGS) facility, which was commissioned in September 2013, Gazprom's first facility that stores gas in salt caverns.

This gas pipeline was used to supply gas to Lithuania and the Kaliningrad region. After the start of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022, it is only used to supply the Kaliningrad region. The pipeline connects to the Torzhok-Minsk-Ivatsevichy Gas Pipeline and Ivatsevichy-Kobryn-Dolyna Gas Pipeline.