Torzhok-Smolensk-Mazyr-Dolyna Gas Pipeline
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Torzhok-Smolensk-Mazyr-Dolyna Gas Pipeline (Russian: Газопровод "Торжок-Смоленск-Мазыр-Долина", also known as "Торжок-Долина") is an operating gas pipeline in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.[1]
Location
The pipeline starts in Torzhok, Russia, passing through Smolensk, Russia, Mazyr, Belarus and ending in Dolyna, Ukraine.[2]
Project Details
- Operator: Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine LCC (GTSOU),[3][4] Gazprom Transgaz Belarus[1]
- Owner: Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine LCC (GTSOU),[3][4] Gazprom[1]
- Parent company: JSC Mahistralni Gazoprovody Ukrainy (MGU),[5][6] Gazprom[1]
- Capacity: 22 bcm/y,[7] 28 bcm/y[1]
- Length: 1,300 km[8]
- Diameter: 1,420 mm[9][10]
- Status: Operating[7][10]
- Start Year: 1996[8]
- Cost:
- Financing:
- Associated infrastructure: Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod pipeline, the Soyuz Gas Pipeline, and the Progress Pipeline
Background
This pipeline is a part of the "Brotherhood" gas pipeline network (Russian: "Братство"). This network includes gas pipelines that deliver gas from the gas fields in Russia to the western border of Ukraine, which is then transported through Slovakia into Western Europe. This network includes the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod pipeline, Torzhok-Smolensk-Mazyr-Dolyna pipeline, the Soyuz Gas Pipeline, and the Progress Pipeline.[11]
The pipeline was upgraded in 2021.[12]
Implications of the Russian invasion
Ukraine will not reopen the Sokhranovka gas transit route (Soyuz gas pipeline) from Russia to Europe until Kyiv obtains full control over its pipeline system, the head of operator GTSOU told Reuters on May 12, 2022 following Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, 2022.[13] Gas transportation through Sudzha GMS is operational.[14][15] As of September 2024, it is unclear if the Belarus-Ukraine section of the pipeline is operating.
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.[16]
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).[16]
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.[16]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Газопровод Торжок-Долина". energybase.ru. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (October 2020). "TYNDP 2020 - MAP – Transmission" (PDF). ENTSOG. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Key Facts - Transmission System Operator of Ukraine". Transmission System Operator of Ukraine. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Gas TSO of Ukraine". Linkedin. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Key Facts - Transmission System Operator of Ukraine". Transmission System Operator of Ukraine. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ↑ "Gas TSO of Ukraine". Linkedin. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Энергоснабжение Республики Беларусь в случае остановки поставок энергоресурсов из Российской Федерации" (PDF). iSANS. February 2023. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 8.0 8.1 "География «Газопроводного противостояния» на постсоветском пространстве". cyberleninka.ru. January 020. Retrieved September 16, 2024.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Belarus Gas Pipelines". East European Gas Analysis. 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2009-10-19.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Сфера деятельности". Belarus Transgaz Gazrpom. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Братство (система газопроводів)". Wikipedia. Retrieved Sep 27, 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Команда, с которой всё по плечу. О работе филиала «Гомельское управление магистральных газопроводов» ОАО «Газпром трансгаз Беларусь»". Правда Гомель. September 12, 2021. Retrieved August 13, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Exclusive: Ukraine will not reopen gas route until it controls pipeline system". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ↑ "Gazprom's gas flows to Europe via Ukraine stable on Saturday". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
- ↑ "Regarding the technical possibility of transferring transit volumes to GMS "Sudzha" - Transmission System Operator of Ukraine". Transmission System Operator of Ukraine. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 "Key Facts - Transmission System Operator of Ukraine". Transmission System Operator of Ukraine. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
External articles
Wikipedia also has an article on the Torzhok Smolensk Mazyr Dolyna Pipeline ([1] Natural gas transmission system of Ukraine). This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License].
