Ostrogozhsk-Shebelinka Gas Pipeline

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Ostrogozhsk-Shebelinka Gas Pipeline (Russian: газопровод "Острогожск-Шебелинка") is a mothballed natural gas pipeline running from Russia to Ukraine.

Location

The pipeline runs from Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh Oblast, Russia, to Shebelinka, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.

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Project Details

• Operator: Gazprom, Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine LCC (GTSOU)
• Owner: Gazprom, Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine LCC (GTSOU)
• Parent company: Gazprom
• Capacity: 23 bcm/y
• Length: 312 km
• Diameter: 40 in
• Status: Mothballed
• Start Year: 1981
• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Shebelinka-Belgorod-Kursk-Bryansk Gas Pipeline

Background

The Ostrogozhsk Shebelinka Pipeline is a part of the main gas transmission system of Ukraine. (the southern transit corridor). The pipeline enters Ukraine through the the Valuyki gas metering station in Belgorod Oblast, Russia. The net book value of the pipeline is $43 million USD. Its got a diameter of 1.2 meters, 2 associated compressor stations, and a working pressure of 5.5 MPa.

Implications of the Russian invasion

Ukraine refused to directly purchase gas from Russia in 2014 and bought reverse gas from the EU: it bought Russian gas from the Europeans from a transit pipe (from the Russian Federation to the EU through Ukraine), or gas that went in the opposite direction to Ukraine after being delivered to the EU via other routes.

Gazprom announced the dismantling of gas pipelines to Ukraine in 2016. The Russian holding planned to eliminate 4.3 thousand kilometers of pipelines and decommission 62 compressor stations by 2020, 10.7 thousand kilometers of pipelines by 2030.

In 2020 Gazprom selected a contractor to carry out the liquidation works of the Valuiki CS-2 of the Ostrogozhsk-Shebelinka gas pipeline. The pipeline is presumed to be mothballed, to be retired in the future.

As of February 26, 2022 the Gas Processing Plant of Shebelinka, the starting point for the pipeline, halted its operations and evacuated the employees due to the Russian invasion.

As of September 2023, Gazprom supplies gas for Europe through Ukraine in the volume of 41.5 million cubic meters per day only via the Sudzha gas metering station in Russia’s Kursk Region.

As of September 2023, the imports along this route are currently suspended, and the pipeline is presumed to be mothballed.

Change of the operator & owner in gas transmission system of Ukraine

In 2019 the personnel of the Branch “Gas TSO of Ukraine” the division of JSC Ukrtransgaz, responsible for natural gas transportation, was transferred to LLC Gas TSO of Ukraine and under the Service Level Agreement concluded between LLC Gas TSO of Ukraine and JSC Ukrtransgaz, LLC Gas TSO of Ukraine provided services covering all types of operation, maintenance and repair works to ensure safe and efficient operation of the main GTS facilities.

In the same year pursuant to Art. 24 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Natural Gas Market”, the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities (hereinafter – NEURC) adopted a final decision supporting certification of LLC Gas TSO of Ukraine according to the ISO model, and also issued the license for the right to carry out activities for the transmission of natural gas allowing the company to perform its functions starting with January 1, 2020 (Resolution of 24.12.2019 No.3011).

In 2020 LLC Gas TSO of Ukraine was fully separated from Naftogaz Group and 100% stake in the authorized capital was transferred to the state-owned company JSC Mahistralni Gazoprovody Ukrainy (MGU). JSC MGU owns 100% of the shares of LLC Gas TSO of Ukraine.