"
If Europe believes it does not need affordable Russian gas, then there are other countries ready to cooperate
."
This was stated today by Russian President
Vladimir Putin
speaking at the
Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok
and while pronouncing these words
Alexey Miller
, the CEO of Gazprom, a Russian gas monopolist, was meeting on the sidelines of the forum with the Mongolian Prime Minister
Luvsannamsrai Oyun. -Erdene
to discuss the transit of the Soyuz Vostok gas pipeline through his country: the goal is the agreements for the construction of the new pipeline, the “
Siberian Force 2
”.
Russia
already has a pipeline
that connects it to China called the “
Siberian Force
”, which allows the passage of
38 billion cubic meters
of methane per year.
To have a comparison, the "
Nord Stream
" which is talked about so much these days that connects Russia to Europe, and which is "under maintenance", therefore stopped, since last Friday 2 September, has a capacity of
50 billion
cubic
meters per year.
The agreement for the "
Siberian Force
",
3,000 km long
, was signed between Putin and the President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping,
in 2014 and 2019 it was already operational
, for a total cost of
55 billion euros
, transporting
approximately
10 billion
cubic meters of gas
every year .
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force tracks of siberia 1 and 2
The "Siberian Force 2"
The Russian energy company
Rosneft, controlled by the government
, has announced that it has
added agreements with Mongolia
to build the second gas pipeline.
Gazprom has approved a feasibility study for the "Power of Siberia 2", which will link Russia to China via Mongolia.
The pipeline project, called Soyuz Vostok, could have an export capacity of
50 billion cubic meters per year
, or 1.3 times that of Power of Siberia.
The
works will start in 2024 and should finish in 2030
.
Gazprom also announced that
China will henceforth settle its gas supply contracts in rubles and yuan.
instead of dollars.
The gas will come from the
Yamal fields which currently feed the gas pipelines that carry the gas westward and towards Europe
.
In any case,
gas supplies to China from the Russian side are constantly increasing
, not only due to the retaliation caused by the Ukrainian invasion.
In the first months of 2022, Gazprom channeled a historic quantity of methane into the "Forza of Siberia": in the face of the sharp reduction in supplies to European countries, between January and June 2022 the amount of fuel channeled to China
increased by 63.4 percent
.