(KZN.RU,
April 17). Today Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of the RT, took part in the
ceremony of laying the foundation stone for the future gas distribution station
(GDS) “Bogorodskoe” in the Pestrechinsky region. The facility will be built
within the framework of the investment project for the reconstruction of the
Minnibaevo-Kazan gas pipeline on the section 220-285 km.
Ilsur
Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, Albert Karimov, the deputy Prime Minister of the
RT and the Minister of Industry and Trade of the RT, Irek Faizullin, the
Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing of the RT, Rafkat Kantyukov,
the general director of the OOO “Gazprom Transgaz Kazan”, and Eduard Diyarov,
the head of the Pestrechinsky municipal region, were present at the festive
event.
“This is a
significant event for our republic”, Rustam Minnikhanov said in his welcoming
speech: “Effective gas supply is an important component of every major project
being implemented in Tatarstan. The power of the gas distribution station
“Bogorodskoe” will allow us to solve all the tasks that are planned for the next
50-70 years”.
Rustam
Minnikhanov noted that the performance of the new gas distribution system will
be more than 5 billion cubic meters per year, which will save problems with gas
shortage in the residential and industrial areas in Kazan, Pestrechinsky and
Laishevsky regions.
The
President of the RT separately thanked the staff of the “Gazprom Transgaz
Kazan”. “Over the past few years, the company has solved all main problems,
including in Innopolis and in the Nizhnekamsk area”, he said.
Rafkat
Kantyukov added that the implementation of this project will provide an
opportunity to increase the reliability of gas supplies to consumers and
thereby contribute to the development of the territories of the RT.
Then the
President of Tatarstan and the general director of the OOO “Gazprom Transgaz
Kazan” established a symbolic stone in the foundation of the gas distribution
station “Bogorodskoe”. It is planned to complete the construction in November
2017, reports the press service of the President of the RT.