Volkhov-Segezha-Kostomuksha Gas Pipeline

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Volkhov-Segezha-Kostomuksha Gas Pipeline (Russian: Газопровод "Волхов-Сегежа-Костомукша") is a proposed gas pipeline in Russia.

Location

Stage I: Volkhov-Medvezhyegorsk Gas Pipeline

The pipeline is proposed to run from Berezhki gas distribution station, near Volkhov, Leningrad Oblast to Medvezhyegorsk, Republic of Karelia, Russia.

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Stage II: Medvezhyegorsk-Segezha Gas Pipeline

The pipeline is proposed to run from Medvezhyegorsk, Republic of Karelia to Segezha, Republic of Karelia, Russia.

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Segezha-Kostomuksha Gas Pipeline

The pipeline would supposedly run from Segezha, Republic of Karelia to Kostomuksha, Republic of Karelia, Russia.

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Project details

Stage I: Volkhov-Medvezhyegorsk Gas Pipeline

• Operator:
• Owner: Gazprom
• Parent company: Gazprom
• Capacity: 1.9 bcm/year
• Length: 239 km
• Diameter:
• Status: Proposed
• Start year:
• Cost: RUB 49.98 million (total project cost)
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Murmansk-Volkhov Gas Pipeline

Stage II: Medvezhyegorsk-Segezha Gas Pipeline

• Operator:
• Owner: Gazprom
• Parent company: Gazprom
• Capacity: 1.9 bcm/year
• Length: 229 km
• Diameter:
• Status: Proposed
• Start year:
• Cost: RUB 49.98 million (total project cost)
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Murmansk-Volkhov Gas Pipeline

Segezha-Kostomuksha Gas Pipeline

• Operator:
• Owner: Gazprom
• Parent company: Gazprom
• Capacity: 1.9 bcm/year
• Length:
• Diameter:
• Status: Proposed
• Start year:
• Cost: RUB 49.98 million (total project cost)
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Murmansk-Volkhov Gas Pipeline

Background

The first two stages of the construction of the pipeline were included in the gasification program of Gazprom for 2021-2025 for the Republic of Karelia and for the Leningrad Oblast. The regional gasification program of the Republic of Karelia for 2022-2030 also includes the first two stages of the project.

The pipeline would consist of at least three segments: Stage I: Volkhov-Medvezhyegorsk Gas Pipeline (Russian: Газопровод Волхов - Сегежа - Костомукша 1-й этап; Газопровод Волхов - Медвежьегорск), Stage II: Medvezhyegorsk-Segezha Gas Pipeline (Russian: Газопровод Волхов - Сегежа - Костомукша 2-й этап; Газопровод Медвежьегорск - Сегежа), and Segezha-Kostomuksha Gas Pipeline (Russian: Газопровод Сегежа - Костомукша) in the Arctic Circle.

As of July 2023, two stages of the pipeline, Volkhov-Medvezhyegorsk and Medvezhyegorsk-Segezha segments, were approved for construction.

In March 2024, it was reported that the project was merged with the Volkhov-Murmansk-Belokamenka Gas Pipeline project and excluded from the "Territorial Planning Scheme of the Russian Federation in the Field of Federal Transportation (specifically, pipeline transportation)", released in March 2024 by the Russian Ministry of Energy. The new combined project is aimed at supplying gas to the Murmansk LNG project and to consumers in the Republic of Karelia and the Murmansk Oblast.