The Unified Gas Supply System () is a unique technological complex that includes gas production, processing, transportation, storage and distribution facilities in the European part of

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. The Unified Gas Supply System ensures a continuous gas supply cycle from the well to the end consumer. It was mainly created during the Soviet era. It is the world's largest system for transporting and balancing natural gas supplies. The owner of the Russian segment of the Unified Gas Supply System is

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. Gazprom also owns gas transportation networks in

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History

The project for the creation of the Unified Gas Supply System was prepared by the

Ministry of Gas Industry of the Soviet Union Ministry may refer to: Government * Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister * Ministry (government department), a department of a government Religion * Christian mi ...

from October 1961 to March 1963, under the leadership of the minister .«Главный газовик Советского Союза», Нефтяные Ведомости, 27.6.2003 № 5 (5)
/ref> In 2017, the total volume of gas transported through the Unified Gas Supply System amounted to 672.1 billion cubic meters, including 20.8 billion cubic meters from

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. Deliveries outside Russia amounted to 232.4 billion cubic meters. In 2017,

provided gas transportation services via the gas transportation system in the Russian Federation to 24 companies. The transportation volume amounted to 137.9 billion cubic meters of gas. In August 2023, Gazprom began design and survey work for further design of the construction of a 700-kilometer gas pipeline from the Volodino compressor station in

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. According to

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, this will be the first stage in the development of the Unified Gas Supply System in Eastern Siberia. Upon completion of the design work, it is planned to sign a gasification program between Gazprom and

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so that the first consumers will receive gas by the 400th anniversary of the region's capital.

References

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