MOSCOW, 28 April - RIA Novosti/Prime. The Ministry of energy and Mindcrime asking 9, 5 billion rubles from the state budget for the construction of the pipeline the Kuban, Crimea, which by 2018 shall deliver to the Peninsula 2 billion cubic meters of gas per year, wrote on Tuesday the newspaper " ".

Mindcrime in mid-April sent to the relevant agencies clarify in the Federal program for development of Crimea until 2020. For example, the story is about the changes in the subprogramme on the development of gas networks volume 19, 8 billion, which is expected to be fully financed from extra-budgetary sources.

As commented in the newspaper of Mindcrime, " according to the proposals of the Ministry of energy of the Russian Federation and the Council of Ministers of Crimea, proposed to Finance the construction of the pipeline Krasnodar territory-the Crimea at the expense of funds of the state budget in the amount of 9, 57 billion rubles."

currently Crimea is fully provided with gas through domestic production, which leads to local " Chernomorneftegaz ". But the Peninsula is dependent on the supply of electric power c of Ukraine, for this reason, by 2018 it is expected to build in the Crimea gas power plant of 900 MW, which will require additional gas. He must be delivered on a future gas pipeline from Krasnodar from the compressor station " Russian ", where to begin and the underwater part of a gas pipeline " Turkish stream ". Capacity of pipe in the Crimea will amount to 2 billion cubic meters per year.

As emphasized print edition, it was expected that, given a common starting point with the " Turkish stream ", Crimean pipe will Finance and build Gazprom, although the Company never confirmed this. According to the interviewer edition, close to " Gazprom ", in the investment program of monopoly this year provided investments in the development of gas networks South-West of the Kuban to deliver gas to a new pipeline, But not on the pipe itself. Thus, the construction of a gas pipeline to Crimea, may be engaged in " Chernomorneftegaz ", stresses the magazine. The head of the organization Sergey Physical confirmed such a possibility.

But the Head of the Ministry of energy of Crimea Sergey Yegorov said about the construction of gas pipelines at the expense of "Chernomorneftegaz" it was never." It was planned to use extra-budgetary funds, which - don't know, " He said.

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