| Minsk–Kaliningrad Interconnection | |
| Type: | natural gas |
| Map: | Minsk-Vilnius-Kaliningrad INTERCONNECTOR.svg |
| Country: | Belarus Lithuania Russia |
| Direction: | east-west |
| Start: | Minsk, Belarus |
| Through: | Belarus-Lithuania border, Vilnius, Jonava, Kaunas, Šakiai, Lithuania-Russia border |
| Finish: | Kaliningrad, Russia |
| Partners: | Amber Grid Gazprom |
| Est: | 1985 |
| Diameter Mm: | 700 |
Minsk–Kaliningrad Interconnection is a natural gas pipeline interconnection between Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, Lithuania and Belarus. Currently, it is the only pipeline supplying natural gas to Kaliningrad Oblast.[1]
Lithuania has a contract with Gazprom on gas transit to Kaliningrad via pipeline until 2025.[2]
In 2005, Gazprom built the Krasnoznamenskaya compressor station.
In 2009, the second line of the pipeline was finished, which allowed the expanded maximum discharge of up to 2.5 billion cubic metres annually.[3]
In 2016, a 25 km gas pipeline branch to Chernyakhovsk and an automated gas distribution station were put into service.
In October 2017, Gazprom completed the construction of two gas pipeline branches stretching to the towns of Gusev and Sovetsk.
In April 2022, President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda announced that Lithuanian national gas transmission operator Amber Grid and Lithuania have completely stopped purchasing Russian gas, and the transmission system has been operating without Russian gas imports since the beginning of April with no intention to receive the Russian gas in the future via Minsk–Kaliningrad Interconnection.[4]
In 2019, Amber Grid renovated a gas distribution station in Jonava, Lithuania.[5] The new station's capacity expanded to and supplied the Achema plant in Jonava, the largest consumer of natural gas in Lithuania.[6] In October 2021 the proposed reconstruction project for the Jonava link was released.