Officials decided to sell the gas pipeline to Kudymkar

The regional authorities are attempting to sell the gas pipeline to Kudymkar through open auction. Built for 1 billion rubles. budget funds, the gas pipeline was intended to increase the attractiveness of the Komi Okrug for investors, but so far its load does not exceed 5%. Apart from Gazprom, no one needs the gas pipeline, but the monopoly will not buy it for a lot of money, experts say.

Last week, the property management agency of the Perm region announced the selection of appraisers who would identify the market value of the region’s property - the Ocher - Kudymkar - Kupros gas pipeline. The initial contract amount for the assessment of gas pipeline real estate is 445 thousand rubles, transport - 34 thousand rubles. The gas pipeline property complex includes the first stage of the gas pipeline branch to Kudymkar (length 86 km), the main section of the Kudymkar - Kupros gas pipeline (length 59.1 km), low pressure gas pipeline (length 498 m), gas distribution networks (1 km), buildings and equipment of gas distribution stations, power lines, land plots.

Last fall, a Gazprom delegation headed by Deputy Chairman of the Management Board Valery Golubev visited Perm. Then the governor of the Perm Territory Oleg Chirkunov said at a meeting that the government was ready to transfer the Ocher - Kudymkar - Kupros gas pipeline to the balance of Gazprom structures. “It is beneficial for the budget to return the money. But you need to understand that this money can be invested in the construction of a new gas pipeline,” Mr. Golubev said in response.

A source at Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Perm LLC (GMP) yesterday suggested that the search for an appraiser is one of the stages of transferring the gas pipeline to gas workers. However, the government did not confirm this. “This is a standard procedure for selecting appraisers,” said acting Kommersant. Head of the Perm Territory Property Management Agency Dmitry Pastukhov. — All sales of state property are always carried out exclusively at auction. If Gazprom Mezhregiongaz expresses a desire, it will participate in the auction on a general basis.”

Construction of the main gas pipeline Ocher - Kudymkar - Kupros (the total length of two stages in the territories of Karagay, Kudymkar, Yusvinsky municipal districts is 145.2 km) began in 2003. The decision to start this project was made in accordance with the decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin “On measures for the socio-economic development of the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug and the Perm Region.” The total cost of the project was 970 million rubles. Construction is financed from the budgets of three levels - district, regional and federal. The first stage of the facility was put into operation in the summer of 2006.

The main gas pipeline was designed for the emergence of large industrial consumers in the Komi Okrug, which were supposed to appear after the merger of the Perm region and the autonomy. But that did not happen. At a meeting with gas workers last fall, former prime minister of the regional government Valery Sukhikh noted that the gas pipeline load was only 1%. At the same time, all boiler houses in the city have been switched to gas. “An incorrect calculation was made that there would be some kind of production in Kudymkar,” Mr. Sukhikh complained. Yesterday, an interlocutor at the GMP estimated the gas pipeline load to 5%.

The gas pipeline is operated by Gazprom Transgaz Tchaikovsky LLC (100% subsidiary of Gazprom) - the only organization in the Perm Territory that has the ability to operate main gas pipelines. The regional government planned to sell this facility to gas workers back in 2009. The amount was announced - 1.5 billion rubles. But Gazprom refused each time, believing that the acquisition would not pay off in the near future.

Yesterday, General Director of Gazprom Transgaz Tchaikovsky LLC Viktor Chichelov refused to make any comments by phone. A source in the GMP doubts that the government will find buyers: “Such gas pipelines can only be operated by Gazprom.”

The press service of the gas company Itera told Kommersant that they do not operate main gas pipelines; the press service of the gas holding Novatek did not respond to a similar request. Nomos Bank analyst Denis Borisov believes that a potential buyer of the gas pipeline can be interested if he sees prospects in the Komi Okrug: “Buying and waiting for an industrial boom to appear is stupid.” “It’s unrealistic to find people willing to operate a facility with 5% occupancy. The assumption that Gazprom will buy it also makes no sense, since there are trained people there who calculate the efficiency,” says former GMP CEO Andrei Agishev.

Vyacheslav Sukhanov

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