Assessment of gas trunkline across Mongolia advances

Gazoprovod Soyuz Vostok has been registered in Mongolia as part of an August 2020 memorandum of intent between Gazprom and the government of Mongolia to set up a special purpose vehicle to perform design and survey works and conduct a feasibility study regarding construction of a gas trunkline to supply Russian gas across Mongolia to China.

“With the Soyuz Vostok gas pipeline, Russia's Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline will extend through Mongolia, and its export capacity might become more than 1.3 times higher than that of Power of Siberia. This will allow us to export large amounts of gas from Western Siberia not only westward but also eastward,” said Alexey Miller, Gazprom’s management chairman, deputy chairman of the board.

The memorandum of intent followed a December 2019 memorandum of understanding providing for a joint assessment of the feasibility of the project for pipeline gas supplies from Russia to China across Mongolia (OGJ Online, Dec. 6, 2019).