KIEV, Nov. 21 – State-run Chornomornaftogaz (Simferopol, Crimea) on November 20 welded the final join of the 83-kilometer underwater gas pipeline linking the BK-1 platform of the Odeske gas field and the MSP-4 platform of the Holitsynske gas condensate field.

The company said that after the start-up work, natural gas extracted at the Odeske field would pass through the new pipeline, reaching the currently operating pipeline and then the gas transport system of Crimea.