Gazprom is planning to use Nord Stream-2 to supply gas to northwest Russia. Igor Yushkov, a leading analyst at the Energy Security Fund, described how it could be done in practice.
In order to bring gas to Leningrad Region, where NSP2 starts, Russia has extended the pipeline infrastructure from Yamal. Now that the pipeline is unlikely to be launched even in the medium term, it is possible to use these pipelines for your own, internal Russian needs.
It is also possible to gasify major cities in northwest Russia with this already built infrastructure. Historically, the gasification of Russia has gone from the south to the north. Even the former southern republics of the USSR, Armenia and Georgia, for example, are almost 100% supplied with pipeline gas. It is the same in the North Caucasus, in the south of Russia.
But there are large areas in the North and North West where there is no gas supply yet. Now there is an opportunity to rectify this situation.
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