Tula-Shostka-Kiev Gas Pipeline

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Tula-Shostka-Kiev Gas Pipeline (Russian: газопровод Тула-Шостка-Киев) is a gas pipeline in Russia and Ukraine.

Location

The pipeline runs from Tula, Tula Oblast, Russia, to Shostka, Ukraine, to Kiev, Ukraine.

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Project Details

• Operator: Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine LCC (GTSOU), Gazprom transgaz Moscow
• Owner: Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine LCC (GTSOU), Gazprom
• Parent company: JSC Mahistralni Gazoprovody Ukrainy (MGU), Gazprom
• Capacity:
• Length: 490 km
• Diameter: 1220 mm
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 1989
• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Dashava-Kiev-Bryansk-Moscow Gas Pipeline

Background

The pipeline crosses the Russian-Ukrainian border in the same corridor as the Dashava-Kiev-Bryansk-Moscow Gas Pipeline, but then deviates slightly to the east.

Implications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

After Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Ukraine halted direct natural gas imports from Russia and replaced those imports with natural gas from European countries. Much of the natural gas imported from Europe, however, originates in Russia and travels into Ukraine through reverse flows from central and eastern European countries.

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 dismantle Execution of work on the liquidation of the "Technological equipment of the site of the gas flow metering station of the main gas pipeline "Tula-Shostka-Kyiv"and the "Operator gas flow metering station of the main gas pipeline Tula-Shostka-Kyiv" for the needs of Gazprom Transgaz Moscow LLC.

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 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.