ArmInfo. The Gazprom Management Committee instructed the relevant subdivisions and subsidiaries to increase volumes of gas in the underground storage of Armenia in the amount of 0.13 billion cubic meters by early autumn of 2017.
According to the press service of the Russian gas holding company, additional volumes of stored gas are needed to ensure reliable operation of the unified gas supply system in the autumn-winter period 2017- 2018, and after 2018.
Underground reserves were also commissioned to create on the territory of Belarus (in the volume of 1.09 billion cubic meters) and Russia (and 72.184 billion cubic meters).
To recall, there is an underground gas storage (UGS) in Armenia, which is a part of the gas transportation system of Armenia. UGS is built in deposits of rock salt at a depth of about 750-1050 meters. In 2007, in the vicinity of the village of Zovuni, a brine storage facility with a volume of 150,000 m3 was built and a 7,5 km long salting line will be laid. Investments amounted to about $ 1.42 million.
