Shebelinka-Belgorod-Kursk-Bryansk Gas Pipeline

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Shebelinka-Belgorod-Kursk-Bryansk Gas Pipeline (ShKBB, Russian: Газопровод Шебелинка - Белгород - Курск - Брянск) is an operating gas pipeline in Ukraine and Russia.

Location

The pipeline starts in Shebelinka, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine and runs to Bryansk, Bryansk Oblast, Russia.

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Project Details

• Operator: Gazprom transgaz Moscow
• Owner: Gazprom
• Parent company: Gazprom
• Capacity: 4.75 bcm/y
• Length: 507 km
• Diameter: 1020 mm
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 1960
• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Shebelinskoe Gas Field, Yelets-Kursk-Kyiv Gas Pipeline , Yelets-Kursk-Dykanka Gas Pipeline, Yelets-Kremenchuk-Kryvyi Rih Gas Pipeline, Ostrogozhsk-Shebelinka Gas Pipeline

Background

The pipeline used to source gas from the Shebelinskoe gas field in Kharkiv oblast in Ukraine.A quarter of a century after the launch of the Shebelinsky deposit, the main part of the reserves was removed from it. However, by this time, gas of West Siberian origin had already been supplied to the European part of the USSR. It was delivered to the gas hub in Yelets, from where it could be transported further along the Yelets-Kursk-Kyiv, and Yelets-Kremenchuk-Kryvyi Rih pipelines. All of them pass through Kursk and can provide a resource for the Kursk-Bryansk and Kursk-Belgorod directions.

Currently, the Ukrainian and Russian sections of the system work separately. The Ukrainian part of the pipeline, together with the Shebelinka-Kharkiv gas pipeline, primarily supplies Kharkiv with resources, while earlier it could receive resources from the Ostrogozhsk-Shebelinka gas pipeline through a bridge 10 km long and 720 mm in diameter (however, imports along this route are currently suspended). ShKBB is also connected to the Yuliiv gas condensate field (as well as to the smaller Korobochkin, Rakitnyan, and Volodar fields).

Implications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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.

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.

In October 2022, Gazprom repaired a 40-km section of the pipeline in the area of Belgorod, Russia.

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. Thus, a section of the pipeline running on the territory of Ukraine, 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.