The length of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific oil pipeline so far welded in the Amir region is 67 kilometres, the project control centre told Itar-Tass. The Eastern Siberia-Pacific oil pipeline's total linear part length is 622 kilometres. The pipeline building in the region is underway since October 2006 at the Tynda-Skovorodino section that is 137.7 kilometres long. The total length of the pipeline in the region will reach over 260 kilometres, Itar-Tass reported. Head of the fuel and energy sector department of the Amur region administration Viktor Ogorodko said, "A total of 1,238 specialists and 400 machinery units are engaged in the building." The project's general contractor - Krasnodarstroitransgaz, has attracted a number of subcontractor organisations from Krasnoyarsk, Ufa and other cities. About one-fourth of all workers in the pipeline laying projects are residents of the Amur region. Simultaneously with the pipeline laying, the construction of an oil pumping station with a reservoir storage facility of 310,000 cubic metres will be launched near Skovorodino in the second quarter of this year. Under the first stage programme of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific oil pipeline laying, oil pumping stations will also be built in the Irkutsk region and Yakutia republic. Amur region governor Leonid Korotkov, heads of the project and other structures on Friday are flying over the pipeline route in a helicopter. A meeting will be held in Tynda in the afternoon to outline the project's tasks for 2007. The construction of the linear part of the pipeline in the region is planned to be completed this year.
