Year: 2019

The Nimnyrskaya Compressor Station is one of the key units of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline. The construction area is confined to the territory of Yakutia, the nearest settlement is the Bolshoy Nimnyr village. Administratively, the project is located on the territory of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), in the Aldan region, near the settlement of Bolshoy Nimnyr. The construction area of ​​CS 4 Nimnyrskaya is located along the route of the main gas pipeline Yakutia – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok” between CS-3 Amginskaya and CS-5 Nagornaya . Geographic coordinates of CS-4 Nimnyrskaya 57° 53’ 33” N 125° 34’ 26” E In the concerned area, the Amuro-Yakutsk  the railway line (Skovorodino-Tommot section) and the M-56 Skovorodino-Nizhniy Bestyak motorway pass are  partially operating. The work area is sparsely populated and difficult to access. The nearest settlements are the district center Aldan and Orochen settlement, located respectively 5 and 13 km north-east of CS-4 Nimnyrskaya and Bolshoy Nimnyr settlement, located 3 km to the west of km 1017.1 of the planned gas pipeline route. This construction project is one of the largest construction projects in Russia

The first stage in the construction of the compressor station CS-4 Nimnyrskaya is the construction of foundations. The foundations consist of driven metal piles with a diameter of 159mm, 219mm, 325mm, 426mm, and a depth of 8m, as well as bored piles with a diameter of 530mm and 620mm, with a depth of 8 to 15m. Pile installation works are carried out by Delta Drilling Company OJSC. The total number of piles at the site is 2115