The railroad will be used for transport of equipment and materials for the development of the gas field and for construction of the Bovanenkovo-Ukhta pipeline across the Baydaratskaya Bay a press release from Gazprom reads.
The underwater pipeline is part of the 1100 km long Bovanenkovo-Ukhta pipeline, which will link the Bovanenkovo gas field with the Russian west-bound pipeline grid. The first gas is planned to be shipped through the pipeline in 2011, as BarentsObserver reported.
The Ob-Bovanenkovo railroad is also planned to be used for transport of gas condensate from the fields on the Yamal Peninsula.
The railroad includes a 4 km long bridge across the Yuribey River floodplain. The bridge is the world’s longest above the Arctic Circle.
Bovanenkovo is the largest gas field on the Yamal Peninsula. It lies 40 kilometers from the coast of the Kara Sea and is estimated to hold some 4.9 trillion cubic meters of gas.