Gazprom accomplished connection of the Dzhubga – Lazarevskoye – Sochi gas pipeline offshore and onshore sections.
The Bigfoot 1 pipe-laying vessel performed a tie-in operation (welding two sections of the pipeline) near the Kudepsta settlement. The same operations were previously performed near the town of Tuapse, settlements of Dzhubga and Novomikhailovsky.
The Tuapse – Kudepsta section of the gas pipeline will be tested in the second half of 2011 (the Dzhubga – Tuapse section has already been tested) including landfalls.
The Dzhubga – Lazarevskoye – Sochi gas pipeline construction and test supply of gas to the automated gas distribution station in Kudepsta are scheduled for this July.
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Source: Gazprom, May 10, 2011;