Gazprom has launched the Jugba-Lazarevskoye-Sochi pipeline to provide
gas for the Olympic Games.
The naval and land sections of the pipeline were connected in May.
The Jugba-Lazarevskoye-Sochi is part of the state program of Olympic
construction and the development of Sochi as a ski resort. It will
boost expansion of the gas network in Sochi and the Tuapsinsky
District and reduce the energy deficit on the Black Sea coast of the
Caucasus. Gazprom head Alexey Miller said earlier that the gas
pipeline would cost 25 billion rubles.
The pipeline will be 177 km long, with 159.5 km running under the sea.
The pipeline will run 4.5 km from the coast to the Kudepsta
distribution station near Sochi.
It will have links Jugba, Novomikhailovsky, Tuapse and Kudepsta. The
automatic gas distribution stations Jugba-1, Jugba-2,
Novomikhailovskaya and Tuapse have already been built.The pipeline
diameter is 530 mm and annual capacity is 3.8 billion square meters.
