Minsk–Kaliningrad Interconnection is a natural gas pipeline interconnection between
Kaliningrad Oblast
Kaliningrad Oblast (russian: Калинингра́дская о́бласть, translit=Kaliningradskaya oblast') is the westernmost federal subject of Russia. It is a semi-exclave situated on the Baltic Sea. The largest city and admin ...
of
Russia
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,
Lithuania and
Belarus
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. Currently it is the only pipeline supplying natural gas to Kaliningrad Oblast.
Lithuania has a contract with Gazprom on gas transit to Kaliningrad via pipeline until 2025.
History
In 2005, Gazprom built the Krasnoznamenskaya compressor station.
In 2009 second line of the pipeline was finished, which allowed to expand maximum discharge up to 2.5 billion cubic metres annually.
In 2016, a 25 km gas pipeline branch to
Chernyakhovsk
Chernyakhovsk (russian: Черняхо́вск) – known prior to 1946 by its German name of (Old Prussian: Instrāpils, lt, Įsrutis; pl, Wystruć) – is a town in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, where it is the administrative center of C ...
and an automated gas distribution station put into service.
In October 2017, Gazprom completed the construction of two gas pipeline branches stretching to the towns of
Gusev and
Sovetsk Sovetsk (russian: Сове́тск) is the name of several urban localities in Russia.
*Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, formerly Tilsit
* Sovetsk, Kirov Oblast, a town in Sovetsky District of Kirov Oblast;
* Sovetsk, T ...
.
In April 2022
President of Lithuania
The President of the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublikos Prezidentas) is the head of state of Lithuania. The officeholder has been Gitanas Nausėda since 12 July 2019.
Powers
The president has somewhat more executive authority th ...
Gitanas Nausėda
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announced that Lithuanian national gas transmission operator
Amber Grid
AB Amber Grid is the main natural gas transmission operator in Lithuania. It was established in 2013 by spin-off of gas transmission operations from the gas company Lietuvos Dujos.
Amber Grid owns all main pipelines in Lithuania, including nat ...
and Lithuania has completely stopped purchasing the Russian gas and the transmission system has been operating without Russian gas imports since the beginning of April with no intention to receive the Russian gas in the future via Minsk–Kaliningrad Interconnection.
Connection to Jonava
In 2019
Amber Grid
AB Amber Grid is the main natural gas transmission operator in Lithuania. It was established in 2013 by spin-off of gas transmission operations from the gas company Lietuvos Dujos.
Amber Grid owns all main pipelines in Lithuania, including nat ...
renovated gas distribution station in
Jonava
Jonava ( ; pl, Janów; german: Janau) is the ninth largest city in Lithuania with a population of .
It is located in Kaunas County in central Lithuania, north east of Kaunas, the second-largest city in Lithuania. It is served by Kaunas Interna ...
, Lithuania. New station's capacity expanded to and supplied
Achema plant in Jonava, largest consumer of natural gas in Lithuania.
„Amber Grid“ modernizavo dvi dujų skirstymo stotis, planuose – naujų objektų rekonstrukcija
/ref> In October 2021 proposed reconstruction project for Jonava link released.
Minsk-Vilnius-Kaliningrad INTERCONNECTOR wirh Jonava link.svg, Jonava connection within Minsk–Kaliningrad Interconnection
Dujotiekis001.jpg, Pipeline near Gaižiūnai
Gaižiūnai is a village in Jonava district municipality, Lithuania. It is situated on the Taurosta River, tributary of Neris, about southeast of Jonava and northeast of Kaunas. The railroad from Šiauliai forks into Kaunas and Vilnius near the ...
See also
* Gas Interconnection Poland–Lithuania
* Lithuania–Latvia Interconnection
References
Natural gas pipelines in Lithuania
Natural gas pipelines in Belarus
Natural gas pipelines in Russia
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