SIBERIA-TO-WESTERN EUROPE NATURAL GAS PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY USSR (SANITIZED)

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• Publication Date: October 21, 1982
• Content Type: REPORT

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GAS PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY
USSR ENINGRAD
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A POSSIBLE EXPORT P/PEL/NE COMPRESSOR STAT/ON UNDER CONSTRUCT/ON
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21 OCTOBER 1982
SIBERIA-TO-WESTERN EUROPE NATURAL GAS PIPELINE
CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY
USSR
1. (SWN) SIGNIFICANCE: EXTENSIVE CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY WAS
UNDERWAY ON THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE SIBERIA-TO-WESTERN
EUROPE NATURAL GAS PIPELINE (EXPORT PIPELINE).
2. (SWN) REMARKS: INTERMITTENT, CONSTRUCTION ALONG
APPROXIMATELY 340 NM OF THE WESTERN PORTION OF HIE IX.POIR'I'
PIPELINE WAS OBSERVED. THIS AREA WAS WITHIN T14E APPROXIMATELY
900 NM SECTION OF THE PIPELINE COVERED ON IMAGERY 25X1
(GRAPHIC 1) EXTENSIVE CONSTRUCTION 25X1
INCLUDED CLEARING AND GRADING FOR THE PIPELINE RIGHT OF WAY,
TRENCH EXCAVATION, AND THE LAYING OF PIPELINE. NUMEROUS
PIPELINE STORAGE/CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT AREAS WERE ALONG THE
ROUTE OF PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION, USUALLY RAIL-SERVED AND
LOCATED ON THE EDGE OF NEARBY TOWNS.
(TSP FORTY COMPRESSOR STATIONS (SEE NUMBERED 25X1
LOCA TION,'~ ON GRAPHIC 1) ARE TO BE CONSTRUCTED ALONG THE
PROPOSED ROUTE OF THE EXPORT PIPELINE. SITE PREPARATION FOR
SEVEN PROBABLE EXPORT COMPRESSOR STATIONS AND TWO POSSIBLE
EXPORT STATIONS WERE IDENTIFIED NEAR THE REPORTED LOCATIONS.
ALL WERE IN A VERY EARLY STAGE OF CONSTRUCTION ADJACENT TO THE
PROPOSED EXPORT PIPELINE ROUTE. CONSTRUCTION OF LARGE
COMPRESSOR BUILDINGS HAD NOT STARTED AT ANY OF THE LOCATIONS
NOR WERE ANY COMPRESSORS OBSERVED.
(SWN) THREE BUILDINGS, PROBABLY FOR CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT,
CONFIGURED IN THE SAME LOCATION PATTERN AND TYPE OF
CONSTRUCTION WERE OBSERVED AT SIX OF THE SITES. GRAPHIC 2
SHOWS TYPICAL SITE PREPARATIONS FOR AN EXPORT COMPRESSOR
STAT.ION. THE BUILDING PATTERN AND TYPE CONSIST OF TWO
PARALLEL QUONSET BUILDINGS WITH A PEAKED ROOF BUILDING
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PERPENDICULAR TO ONE END OF THE QUONSET BUILDINGS. THIS
(SWN) THE SEVEN PROBABLE COMPRESSOR STATIONS ARE AT.GUSYATIN
(37) (49-00-51N 26-08-26E), GLUSHKOVO (30) (51-02-22N
34-37-54E), DOLGOYE (28) (52-04-12N 37-33-59E), ALGASOVO (24)
(53-38-56N 41-45-04E), POCHINKI (22) (54-39-16N 44-37-29E),
SECHENOVO (21) (55-13-54N 45-54-27E), AND KANASH (20)
(55-44-29N 47-08-15E). WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ALGASOVO, ALL
GROUND SCARRING FOR
ADDITIONAL EXPORT PIPELINE COMPRESSOR STATIONS WAS POSSIBLY
IDENTIFIED AT BOGORODCHANY (38) (48-47-37N 24-34-0613) AND BAIZ
(36) (48-58-36N 27-44-35E).
(SWN) IN ADDITION A FENCE-SECURED TEMPORARY HOUSING AREA ';IAS
IDENTIFIED AT CHEREMISINOVO COMPRESSOR STATION, A DOMESTIC
STATION IN MIDSTAGE OF CONSTRUCTION 1.5 NM SOUTH OF'
CHEREMISINOVO AT 51-52-40N 37-15-55E. (GRAPHIC 3) THIS
HOUSING AREA, AT THE EASTERN EDGE OF THE UNSECURED
CONSTRUCTION SITE CONSISTS OF 34 HOUSE TRAILERS MOSTLY IN
GROUPS OF TWO, A SUPPORT BUILDING AND TWO SMALL SUPPORT
BUILDINGS/TRAILERS ENCLOSED BY A THREE-METER HIGH BOARD
FENCE. THE TRAILERS IN THIS FENCED-SECURED AREA COULD BE USED
AS HOUSING FOR FORCED-LABOR. THE FENCE-SECURED HOUSING AREA
IS 17 NM FROM THE NEAREST EXPORT PIPELINE COMPRESSOR STATION,
ALSO UNDER CONSTRUCTION. HOWEVER, TRENCH EXCAVATION AND
PIPE-LAYING FOR THE EXPORT PIPELINE IS UNDERWAY LESS THAN A
MILE NORTHWEST OF THE FENCE-SECURED HOUSING AREA.
(SWN) THE HOUSING AREA AT CHERE11.11ISINOVO WAS THE ONLY
COMPRESSOR STATION OR PIPE STORAGE/CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT AREA,
DOMESTIC OR EXPORT, IDENTIFIED
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AREA. ADDITIONALLY, NONE OF THE FOUR PARTIALLY COMPLETED
COMPRESSOR STATIONS FOR THE URENGOY-NOVOPSKOV DOMESTIC
PIPELINE SEEN IN THE IVDEL (8) AND PERM (13) AREAS IN JUNE AND
JULY SHOWED ANY INDICATIONS OF SECURED HOUSING.
(S) BE NONE, COORDINATES 52-04-12N 37-33-59E GRAPHIC 2
COORDINATES 51-52-40N 37-15-SSE GRAPHIC 3 25X1
SIBERIA-TO-WESTERN EUROPE (S)
REPORT, SOVIET NATURAL GAS PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION:
4. (TSI{ COLLATERAL REFERENCES; NPIC IMAGERY ANALYSIS
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