Oil and Gas Technology: Russian energy minister confirms plans to build Russia-Crimea pipeline

Russian media has reported ministers as confirming plans to build a gas pipeline to Crimea, with the intention of supplying three new power stations.

The natural gas pipeline could have a capacity of up to 2 billion cubic meters a year, energy minister Alexander Novak is reported to have said to Russian business newspaper, Kommersant.

An Energy Ministry spokeswoman confirmed Novak had made the comments to Kommersant.

Novak told the Kommersant that the three power stations supplied by the proposed pipeline could have a total capacity of 1,320 megawatts, and the cost could be up to RUB 100bn.

Novak also said Russian state gas company Gazprom would cover all the costs, a possible RUB 6bn, for the construction of the pipeline to Crimea, which has been annexed by Russia.  MORE