Yamburg-Yelets Gas Pipeline

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Yamburg-Yelets Gas Pipeline (Russian: Газопровод Ямбург-Елец) is an operating gas pipeline in Russia.

Location

The pipeline runs from Yamburg gas field (Yamburgskoye Neftegazokondensatnoye Mestorozhdeniye), Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug to Yelets, Lipetsk Oblast, Russia. More specifically, it runs from the Yamburg gas field to Kungur, to Pochinki, Algasovo, and ends in Yelets.

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Project details

Yamburg-Yelets Gas I Pipeline

• Operator: Gazprom
• Owner: Gazprom

• Parent company: Gazprom
• Capacity:
• Length: 3,146 km)
• Diameter: 1,420 mm
• Status: Operating
• Construction year: 1983 - 1985
• Start year: 1986

• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Progress Gas Pipeline, Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod Gas Pipeline, Urengoy-Center Gas Pipeline

Yamburg-Yelets Gas II Pipeline

• Operator: Gazprom
• Owner: Gazprom
• Parent company: Gazprom
• Capacity:
• Length: 3,146 km
• Diameter: 1,420 mm
• Status: Operating
• Construction year: 1983 - 1985
• Start year: 1987
• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Progress Gas Pipeline, Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod Gas Pipeline, Urengoy-Center Gas Pipeline

Background

The system of pipelines Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod consists of six pipelines: Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod Gas Pipeline, Urengoy-Center Gas Pipeline I and II, Yamburg-Yelets Gas Pipeline I and II, and Progress Gas Pipeline.

Within the Russian gas network, the pipeline extends further to Kursk in Russia, from there connecting to the Ukrainian gas network, and runs to Dolyna and Uzhgorod in Ukraine, from which gas is delivered to countries in Western Europe. Gazprom announced dismantling gas pipelines that transport gas to Ukraine in 2016. In 2020, Gazprom selected a contractor to dismantle Pervomayskaya compressor station, a part of the Yamburg-Yelets gas pipeline.

On May 16, 2023 an explosion occurred at the Yamburg-Yelets I Gas Pipeline in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District. A fire broke out during repair works. As a result of the explosion, two men died and four were injured.