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12 November 1982

USSR REPORT

ENERGY

No. 122

CONTENTS

ELECTRIC POWER

Irregular Deliveries Disrupt Nuclear Power Plant Construction

(N. Gushchin; MATERIAL'NO-TEKHNICHESKOYE SNABZHENIYE,

No 7, 1982) 1

PIPELINES

UkSSR Government, Trade Union Encourage Pipe Effort

(PRAVDA UKRAINY, 17 Aug 82) 5

Pipeline Construction Round Table

(V. Sukhanov; KHOZYAYSTVO I PRAVO, Jun 82) 7

Pipeline Construction Report

(B. L'vov, G. Panushkin; IZVESTIYA, 19 Jul 82) 19

Kuybyshev Oblast Pipeline Report

(V. Shalgunov; PRAVDA, 6 Sep 82) 23

Construction of Petrovsk Compressor Station Behind Schedule

(V. Isayev; SOTSIALISTICHESKAYA INDUSTRIYA, 27 Jul 82) 25

Pipeline Construction Report Given From Yugan River

(V. Grannik; KOMSOMOL'SKAYA PRAVDA, 22 Aug 82) 27

Lvov Plant Produces Pipeline Compressor Station Equipment

(F. Bil'din; KOMSOMOL1 SKAYA PRAVDA, 18 Aug 82) 30

Oblast Newspapers Report on Pipeline Construction

(T. Trofimova; EKONOMICHESKAYA GAZETA, Aug 82) 32

Personal Story Told From Pipeline Construction Route

(N. Limonov; SOTSIALISTICHESKAYA INDUSTRIYA, 20 Aug 82).,.. 34

- a - [III - USSR - 37]
Pipes Shipped on Northern Rivers

(V. Busygin; SOTSIALISTICHESKAYA INDUSTRIYA, 31 Aug 82).. 40

Azerbaijan Pipe Rolling Plant Production Described

(Z. Gasanova; KOMMUNIST, 19 Aug 82) 43

Pipeline Equipment Provided by Armenia

(N. Ordinyan; SOTSIALISTICHESKAYA INDUSTRIYA, 13 Aug 82). 45

Briefs

Early Pipe Shipment 48

Pipeline Advances 48

Early Completion of Compressor Station 48

Gas Pumping Unit 48

Pumping Station 49

Pipes Lost 49

Export Pipeline 49

First Series-Produced GTN 49

Welding Equipment for Pipeline 49

More on Welding Equipment 49

Testing Equipment for Export Pipeline 50

Don Pipeline 50

Pipeline Extends 50

Pipeline Enters Ukraine 50

Pipeline Documents Issued 50

Pipelining 51

Faster Welding 51

Gasoline Pipeline 51

Automatic Switches 51

Gas Pumping Units 52

Severnyy Balkui Gas 52

Second Gas Compressor Station 52

Accelerated Pipeline Construction 52

Pipeline Lengthens 52

Pipeline Reaches Udmurt 53

Pipe-Carriers 53

Pipeline Delay 53

Work on Northern Section of Export Pipeline 53

Underground Equipment 54

Crossing the Kama River 54

GENERAL

Latvian SSR Heat and Fuel Supply Problems Discussed

(V. A. Zebergs, A. Ya. Lazdin'sh; IZVESTIYA AKADEMII

NAUK LATVIYSKOY SSR, No 5, 1982) 55

- b -
ELECTRIC POWER

IRREGULAR DELIVERIES DISRUPT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT CONSTRUCTION

Moscow MATERIAL'NO-TEKHNICHESKOYE SNABZHENIYE in Russian No 7, 1982 pp 53-55

[Article by N. Gushchin: "The Primary Task—Rhythmicity of Supply]

[Text] By the time work gets underway at many construction sites in the nuclear power industry, a reliable base has already been organized for the production of readymix concrete, concrete reinforcements, embedded fittings, nonstandard prefabricated

reinforced concrete and other structural elements. They are being delivered by a

new type of enterprise—the nuclear construction combine. This makes it possible

to employ high-speed production-line methods to construct the power units. As a

result, the work time is reduced, quality is improved, labor expenses and the consumption of materials is kept down and the cost of AES construction is lowered.

The presence of production-base capacities makes it possible for the builders to

cope successfully with the fulfillment of projected plans and to conduct the work

strictly according to established schedules. The Southern Ukraine nuclear power

plant, for example, is being built at a rapid pace. Tasks here for the first quarter of this year were completed by 105 percent. Even today the collective is working to run ahead of the schedule. The contract work-team principle is being widely

used at the site. This has made it possible to reduce the standard work times by

a factor of 1.5 to 2.

Far from all AES construction workers are achieving similar success. Moreover,

there are delays at other facilities from month to month. In the first quarter,

the plan of construction and installation work at the Kursk and Smolensk AES's was

fulfilled. Frequent interruptions take place at the Rostov and Balakovo nuclear

power plants.

To be sure, much depends upon the construction workers themselves, their labor activity and the level to which they organize their work. Here they have something

to think about. It is necessary to create everywhere conditions that are conducive

to improving the people's skills and to see that all the machinery is being employed

at maximum loads. Much remains to be done in the extensive dissemination of progressive experience.

In conjunction with this it must be noted that frequent disruptions of the construction conveyer are caused by violations of the contractual obligations of the suppliers. There is a bit of folk wisdom that says that you cannot eat dinner without

your spoon. Sometimes, however, this is frequently forgotten. There are instances,
for example, when a disruption occurs in the delivery of an insignificant amount

of one type of material and the entire collective is fouled up. Dozens of vehicles

and pieces of machinery, as well as work crews and other sections are idled, while

the other materials and equipment lie about like so much dead weight.

Something similar took place in the first quarter during the construction of the

reactor compartment of the Kalinino AES. The primary reason was the lack of certain

grades of steel for concrete reinforcements which were not delivered on time. The

same thing also happened during the construction of the first level of the machine

room at the Balakovo AES.

If one looks at the reports regarding the deliveries of primary construction materials, the picture that forms is somewhat optimistic. More steel pipe and cement were

delivered for the first quarter than were called for. With respect to rolled metal,

the plan was 100 percent fulfilled. Only the deliveries of industrial-grade lumber

were short, and by very little, at that—by 1,400 m

3

.

"What is the matter?" you ask. The problem is that the rhythmicity of supply is

being disrupted. The Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant did not deliver enough reinforcement steel in 36 and 40-mm diameters. The construction site of the Rostov AES

did not receive 600 tons of this steel in 16-mm diameter. The Krivorog Metallurgical Plant disrupted the delivery of the steel. The Yenakiyevo and Makayevka metallurgical plants and the Dneprovskiy Metallurgical Plant imeni Dzerzhinskiy are among

those in debt.

These enterprises, unfortunately, are not coping with their production tasks and

systematically fall short in the delivery of a great amount of material necessary

for the construction of nuclear power plants. As a result, valuable time is irretrievably lost.

The managers of many of these debtor enterprises promised to make up for the production shortfall in April of the first quarter. The majority of them kept their word.

This, however, does not change the main point. The train, as they say, has already

left. They will not be able to make up the lost time—time that was needed for the

execution of construction and installation operations. A last-minute rush will not

do anyone any good. One cannot justify the situation, therefore, by saying that

the slow-up in supply has been eliminated. All measures must be taken so that such

disruptions will not be allowed in the future.

Not all, however, were true to their given promises. The Nikipol Southern Pipe

Plant, for example, even in April remained in debt to construction workers in the

nuclear industry. The Rustavi Metallurgical Plant settled with the construction

workers in its own way~it delivered 320 tons of defective 8-mm rolled steel. Having received a complaint regarding this, the plant did not respond to it at all,

although it should have sent out its own representative immediately.

While criticizing the enterprises which disrupt deliveries and rhythmicity, it would

be wrong not to blame the supply organs. They also bear responsibilty for the shortfall in deliveries. The Central-Chernozem, Moscow, Privolzhye, Northern Caucasus,

Bashkir and other major territorial administrations are unsatisfactorily supporting

the construction of AES's. Through the fault of the Southern Ural Main Territorial

Administration, 390 tons of rolled stainless steel were not delivered in the first

quarter. Builders of nuclear power plants were unsatisfactorily supplied with electrodes, electrical-installation and paint and varnish materials, protective clothing

and bedclothes for living quarters.
Supply and sales organizations are given considerable rights which allow them to

actively influence negligent suppliers. These rights, however, are far from completely utilized. If these organizations would strictly follow the situation with

regard to the delivery of industrial and technical products, there would not be many

disruptions.

Many territorial organs are not executing the necessary control over what the suppliers are providing to the builders of AES's and how long it takes them to do it.

This so-called "gross-output" approach to the solution of an important state problem

incurs considerable damage. Work at the Balakovo AES, for example, is in full

swing. The builders need smooth deliveries of metal and lumber. Each delay is a

lost day which cannot be recovered. Meanwhile, metal and lumber are being delivered

here with interruptions.

Another side of the issue is proper control over the delivery of material resources

to the constuction sites. Here, as they say, you must keep your eyes peeled. Some

territorial administrations, however, forget about this. As a result, the surplus

of metal and prefabricated reinforced concrete structural elements at many installations significantly exceeds standards.

Summer is the most favorable season to carry out construction operations. It is

during this period that much can be done to fulfill socialist obligations that have

been assumed, to bring lagging sections up to par and to come as close as possible

to meeting deadlines for commissioning new power units at AES's scheduled to go on

line first. In order to do this, however, it will be necessary to arrange things

so that builders do not have a need for materials and equipment.

As the data indicate, however, not all supply organs take into consideration the

fact that work on construction sites is conducted more intensively during the summer

period than during the winter, and, subsequently, the sites will require more material resources. For example, Soyuzglavmetall planned deliveries of rolled steel

for the second quarter in smaller volumes than for the first quarter.

Having noted this and other shortcomings in the supply of material and technical

resources to AES construction sites, the board of the USSR State Committee for Material and Technical Supply planned specific measures which provided for the elimination of these shortcomings. Supply organs must increase control over the realization of funds apportioned for the construction of AES's. It is necessary to

achieve this goal so that deliveries can be made in accordance with established priorities.

In order to resolve successfully the tasks that have been set, the territorial organs must not act in isolation from one another, but in close contact. Their interaction is impossible without the knowledge of the state of affairs at those enterprises which supply products to nuclear power plant construction sites. Thus arises

the necessity to strengthen working ties with the managers of these enterprises and

to render them assistance in supplying the material resources necessary for the

manufacture of such products.

It is also important to maintain close contact with the corresponding ministries

and departments. It is the latter that have been called upon to devote steady attention to the systematic introduction of progressive management methods at enterprises

within their jurisdiction and to make sure that these enterprises fully carry out

their obligations with respect to the delivery of products within established timeframes and in the projected amounts.
The plan of measures to improve the system of material and technical supply for the

construction of nuclear power plants provides, for example, that the quarter's quota

of rolled steel be delivered over the course of 75 days. Soyuzglavmetall and the

territorial organs, meanwhile, have not achieved this. One of the reasons is the

lack of reliable interaction with the USSR Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy.

No less important are the contacts that territorial organs have with the construction organizations which are building the AES's. This will make it possible to know

better how to utilize the valuable material resources apportioned for the construction of AES's and how to introduce into the economic cycle the supplies of prefabricated reinforced concrete, metal structural elements and other materials maintained

on hand in excess of permitted standards.

As is well known, questions associated with improving the organization of.AES con-,

struction and with insuring the absolute fulfillment of the program of developement

for the nuclear power industry slated for the current five-year plan were discussed

at a meeting of the CPSU Central Committee. Subjected to criticism were the directors of ministries, departments, construction and supply and sales organizations

who had allowed nonfulfillment of planned tasks and interruptions in the delivery

of necessary materials, machines and equipment. At the meeting it was emphasized

that it would be necessary to implement additional measures which would insure that

the construction sites were fitted out with the corresponding equipment and that

the required resources were delivered. The efforts of supply organs and delivery

enterprises must be directed toward the solution of these problems.

Rhythmicity of supply is today's key problem. Toward its solution must be directed

the efforts of ministries and departments, enterprises and production associations

and all supply and sales organizations. Among certain collectives directly involved

with the fulfillment of construction tasks there has arisen a movement under the

slogan of "A Green Light for Nuclear Power!" We must make sure that under this slogan works each person involved in supplying nuclear power plant construction sites

with finished and raw materials, machines and equipment.

COPYRIGHT: Izdatel'stvo "Ekonomika", "Material'no-tekhnicheskoye snabzheniye", 1982

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PIPELINES

UKSSR GOVERNMENT, TRADE UNION ENCOURAGE PIPE EFFORT

Kiev PRAVDA UKRAINY in Russian 17 Aug 82 p 1

/Article: "Accelerated Rhythm for a Key Construction Project^/

/Text/ Within the UkSSR Council of Ministers and the UkSSR

Council of Trade Unions.

The UkSSR Council of Ministers and the UkSSR Council of Trade Unions

have issued a decree entitled "Measures for ensuring the completion

of facilities for the mainline gas pipeline from Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod in the Ukraine." The decree spells out the assignments for

ensuring the completion in 1983 of the linear portion of this pipeline over a distance of more than 1,100 kilometers, including compressor stations at Grebenkovskaya and Barskaya. The decree also

spells out several other measures aimed at the rapid construction of

this important facility.

A republic-level socialist competition has been organized among the^

collectives of the construction, installation and specialized organizations for the timely and high-quality fulfillment of assignments

for building and putting on line the facilities for the mainline^

Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline within the republic. This includes the collectives of the enterprises and organizations which

manufacture and deliver materials and equipment for this pipeline

and which are designing the facilities for the pipeline. Results are

to be tallied for each quarter.

To reward the winners of the socialist competition the following have

have established:

-among the collectives ofcthe construction, installation and specialized organizations, which are responsible for the construction of the

linear portion of the gas pipeline and the compressor stations - two

challenge .Red Banners of the UkSSR Council of Ministers and the Council of Trade Unions with first money bonuses amounting to 5,000 rubles

each and two second money bonuses of 3,000 rubles each. It has been

established that the challenge Red Banners of the UkSSR Council of Ministers and the UkSSR Council of Trade Unions upon completion of construction will be permanently transferred to the construction^administrations of the general contractingoorganizations, which achieve the
best results in providing the ahead-of-schedule completion of the

linear portion of the gas pipeline and the compressor stations;

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PIPELINES

PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION ROUND TABLE

Moscow KHOZYAYSTVO I PRAVO in Russian No 6, Jun 82 pp 19-27

^/Article by V. Sukhanov, special correspondent: "The Pipeline Moves

to the WestV

/Text/ "The CPSU Central Committee has decreed that we are

to consider the task of the USSR Ministry for the Construction

of Petroleum and Gas Industry Enterprises, its collegium, the

economic managers, the Party and trade union organizations of

administrations, associations, enterprises and organizations

to ensure the further speeding up of the technical reoutfitting and extensive adoption of progressive methods and leading experience of construction work as the basic and decisive

condition for the successful realization of Comrade L. I.

Brezhnev's assignment for the intensive development of the

USSR's oil and gas complex, the forced increase in oil and

gas extraction in Western Siberia as most important. It is

to be viewed as an important component öf the energy program

for the 11th and 12th five-year plans."

(From the CPSU Central Committee decree "regarding the work

of the USSR Ministry for the Construction of Petroleum and

Gas Industry Enterprises in the technical reoutfitting and

adoption of progressive construction methods.")
Map of gas pipelines in the 11th Five-Year Plan

Key: 1 - Key mainline gas pipelines; 2 - Mainline gas pipeline;

3 - Urengoy-Uzhgorod gas pipeline; 4 - Gas deposits.

Last year the editors of the journals KHOZYAYSTVO I PRAVO, PLANOVOYE

KHOZYAYSTVO, MATERIAL'NO-TEKHNICHESKOYE SNABZHENIYE and SOTSIALISTICHESKIY TRUD met at a "round table" in Tyumen*. The meeting was devoted to a discussion of questions concerning the rationalization of

management and the use of resources in the construction of the mainline oil and gas pipelines. The materials of the meeting, which

brought together party, Soviet and economic managers from Tyumenskaya

Oblast, were published * and elicited response ** from the ministries

and departments which are engaged in assimilating West Siberian oil

and gas deposits. They noted the urgency of the matters raised at

the "round table" and the need to further improve the planning and

management of pipeline construction and to improve material and technical supply as well as the legal regulation of economic relations,

which arise in the creation of the West Siberian oil and gas complex.

A year has passed since the meeting at the "round table". This period

of time was rich in events within the Soviet Union and for those engaged in the extraction of oil and gas in West Siberia. For example,

there was the November (1981) Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee,

at which Comrade L.I. Brezhnev, in a major speech, called the construction of the five major mainline gas pipelines from Western Siberia to the Center and the Urengoy to Uzhgorod export gas pipeline

the key construction projects of the 11th Five-Year Plan. When these

transport mainlines are put into operation, it will solve one of the

strategic tasks for the development of the Soviet Union's economy -

the intensive inclusion of Siberian natural resources in the national

economy and a substantial growth in the USSR's power and energy potential. The Urengoy-Gryazovets-Moscow gas pipeline (a distance of 2,300

kilometers) is already in operation. And the construction of the

Urengoy-Petrovsk pipeline (3,019 km) is now complete. The laying of

two more.pipelines has now gotten underway simultaneously: Urengoy to

Novopskov (3,570 km) and Urengoy to Uzhgorod (4,650 km). Nearly 1,000

* KHOZYAYSTVO I PRAVO, 198 1, No 5.

** KHOZYAYSTVO I PRAVO, 198 1, No 12.
kilometers of each pipeline will pass through Tyumenskaya Oblast, which

must play a primary role in the solution of this task.

Quite a bit has been done during the past year within the vast expanses

of Tyumenskaya Oblast. The collective of Glavsibtruboprovodstr£y

/Main Administration for the Construction of Siberian Pipelines^/ alone

was responsible for the completion of nearly 1,600 km of gas pipelines

in the first year of the 11th Five-Year Plan. It also built seven compressor stations and one oil pumping station, as well as many facilities to be used for cultural and day-to-day needs. Altogether in West

Siberia last year some 12,000 km of pipelines and 63 compressor and

pumping stations and 1,713,000 square meters of housing were put into

operation.

The realization of the taut program provided a growth in gas extraction amounting to 30 billion cubic meters, including seven billion

cubic meters in excess of the plan. This is a part of the task facing

those who are to subdue the depths of West Siberia in the 11th FiveYear Plan. Seventy-five million tons of oil and 200 billion cubic

meters of natural gas - such is the growth planned for them by 1985

as compared with the final year of the 10th Five-Year Plan.

There have been some positive changes during the past year in improving the coordination of actions. The Interdepartmental Territorial

Commission, which began its work during this time period, is engaged

not only with future planning but is also helping to more expeditiously solve current problems and increasing its control over progress in

fulfilling the assignments handed out by the party and government.

For example, the commission supported the suggestion of the builders

to complete the Novo-Kazymskaya compressor station one year ahead of

schedule, which required a review of the approved layout for the sequence of completing construction projects. The commission also coordinated the efforts to organize the centralized servicing of equipment that is performed by the plant-manufacturers.

Legal support was also strengthened during this time period. The

USSR Ministry of the Petroleum Industry developed branch normative

documents including the "temporary instruction regarding work time

and rest for workers doing work on the watch-expeditionary method",

the "temporary instruction on the watch method of performing drilling

work"; the USSR Ministry of the Gas Industry prepared a draft instruction on the construction of "turnkey" projects; and the USSR

Ministry for the Construction of Petroleum and Gas Industry Enterprises compiled a general diagram for managing the construction of

enterprises, etc.

The editors of the above-named journals decided to continue the.conversation that they had started and to see what had been done during

this time period in -the construction of the Ob' River oil and gas

pipelines and to learn how the questions raised at the "round table"
were being resolved. . With this goal in mind they appealed to several

managers of Tyumenskaya Oblast organizations who are responsible for

this work section to tell them about the status of affairs having to

do with the construction of the oil and gas mainlines. *

The department chief of the Tyumenskaya Oblast Party Committee, B.

Trofimov; the deputy chairman of the Interdepartmental Territorial

Commission on Matters Having to Do With the Development of the West

Siberian Oil and Gas Complex (ZapSibMVTK), G. Alpatov; the chief of

Glavsibtruboprovodstroy, N* Kurbatov; the chief of the Tyumenskaya

Oblast main territorial administration of the USSR Gossnab, V. Zaychenko; the chief state arbitrator for Tyumenskaya Oblast, V. Zverev;

and the deputy chairman of the Tyumenskaya Oblast Peoples' Control

Committee, Yu. Sanin, discussed these matters with representatives

of the editors of the journals.

We offer our readers a transcript of these talks with the commentary

of our correspondent.

/Question^/ How is the coordination of the actions of the planning and

supply organs, the construction organizations in building facilities

for the oil and gas pipelines and in developing the deposits, building

of roads, etc., being improved?

Answer/ B. Trofimov: In our meeting last year we talked about tne re~

suits of poor coordination. But I will remind you of the problem we

had in Surgut. From 1966 through 1981 the population of this city increased 10-rfold. There are now 150,000 people living in this city

and more than 400 enterprises and organizations belonging to 28 ministries and departments. And although the single customer for the construction of the city was the USSR Ministry of the Petroleum Industry,

in fact the layout was accomplished by 26 customers. The consequence

of such a mixed effort was the lack of a comprehensive solution of

matters having to do with the engineering preparation for both the

construction and the equipping with services. The temporary solutions

on engineering support alone resulted in excessive costs amounting to

an additional 30 million rubles. Right up to the present, for example,

the city receives heat from 40 departmental boilers, while the housing

fund and municipal services are provided by 20 offices which have different subordinations. According to estimates of Tyumen' scientists,

the centralization in Surgut of just the housing and municipal services

and trade makes it possible to free 2,250 workers for other work and

to save 60,700,000 rubles.

What is being done about this and what has been done?

* Documents regarding the meeting were also published in the journals

PLANOVOYE KHOZYAYSTVO (1982, No 5) and MATERIAL'NO-TEKHNICHESKOYE

SNABZHENIYE (1982, No 6).

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Oblast organizations continue to work on the construction of heating

supply power unit at the Surgutskaya GRES and on organizing on its

basis a central heating system for the city. In 1982 this power unit

is to be completed.

The departmental lack of coordination is seen also in economic relations within the production sphere. For example, more than 15 main

administrations, involving almost ten ministries, are now involved

in the development of the infrastructure for the Novyy Urengoy deposit.

Recently an additional organization was added - Glavurengoygazstroy

/Main Administration for the Construction of Gas Industry Enterprises

Tn Urengov_/. One would think that this organization would have some

charts for coordinating actions. But this new main administration

does not have the right to exert pressure on many of the subelements

that are now in Novyy Urengoy. This includes, for example, the river

fleet workers, upon whom they depend for the delivery of most construction and technical cargoes.

And as regards the central project here - Urengoy!? The USSR Ministry

of the Gas Industry has been given the task of developing the needed

infrastructure. Coordinate and act! One cannot succeed. At least

up until this year they did not manage to accomplish this. The USSR

Ministry of Transport Construction is building the roads and the USSR

Ministry of Power and Electrification is providing the electric power.

And one cannot find the responsible representatives of these organizations in Urengoy. A decision was made: to build 80 kilometers of

roads with a paved surface in Urengoy. The plan called for 56 km,

but only 8 km were actually completed.

N. Kurbatov: Everything is not what it should be with the designing

work either. The institutes that are working for us are located far

form Tyumen: in Leningrad, Donetsk and Kuybyshev. Their representative comes here, but what can he do by himself? This is a complex

problem. They travel back and forth: they coordinate. Time is running out! Why not bring the design institutes closer to Tyumen' -

especially those working on the mainline gas pipelines; this is what

was done by the oil industry workers, for example?

G. Alpatov: Our Interdepartmental Territorial Commission ZapSibMVTK

has created planning work directly at the construction site in order

to better consider and combine the regional and branch interests and

to eliminate economic disproportions. It has a difficult task: to

find its place in the "enterprise-sector-Gosplan" system. And while

the basic components of the economic mechanism of the enterprises and

sectors were formulated within this schematic by various normative

documents, there is nothing similar within the territorial-production

complexes. To develop this mechanism and to combine it with the overall system of interactions between enterprises and sectors is one of

the urgent tasks of the commission. Here is a local example: this

year the USSR Ministry for the Construction of Petroleum and Gas Industry Enterprises promises to begin work on assimilating the new

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West Siberian Yamburg gas deposit. But there is no instruction go-^

verning the actions of the different ministries and departments during

the preparation period or preceding the development of the infrastructure of the deposit. This makes it impossible to develop documentation and to securely establish the construction work.

Correspondent: Time is running out. The first autotractor train

carrying those who are to develop this rich deposit has already arrived

in Yamburg. Nature is cruel here: temperatures down to 60 degrees

below freezing and permafrost everywhere. How can roads be built?

How will the units for the comprehensive processing of gas function

in these conditions? How will they lay the pipes?

The Yamburg nut is strong. But it must be broken: in the first year

of the 12th Five-Year Plan the Yamburg deposit must yield natural gas.

/Question/ What is being done to better coordinate construction work

with the time periods for delivering materials? Has their completeness been improved? What has Gossnab done to reduce the above-norm

supplies of material valuables?

/^Answer/ N. Kurbatov: There is a system: the ministries-customers

submit orders for pipes two years before construction gets underway.

These deliveries are being made subject to non-formulation by documentation. I will explain the problem. At present, for example, orders

for pipe deliveries are being made for construction in 1984. Documents

for the construction of the pipeline, i.e., for the construction itself, are submitted one year before work is to commence. It evolves

that they are buying the fabric for the suit, in this case without

knowing the size of the man who is to wear it. This results in resizing and at times above-norm supplies. An example for today: the

first quarter is coming to an end and the annnual program for the main

administration's pipe requirements are provided and they continue to

be shipped .

One could hope for improvements in the completeness of deliveries.

For example, the time periods for shipping equipment for the compressor stations along the Urengoy to Gryazovets gas pipeline were stipulated in the contract with the customer - the USSR Ministry of the

Gas Industry. The schedules for executing these deliveries were also

submitted. For example, deliveries were to have been made in September 1980 for the "Long-Yugan" compressor station. But the station

still has not been equipped with some 20 different pieces of equipment.

Equipment for the "Sos'va", "Pripolyarnaya" and "Sorum" compressor

stations was also late in arriving, which meant that these compressor

stations were not completed on time.

B. Trofimov: It is true that the material-technical supply organizations permit pipe to be delivered in excess amounts and in incorrect

assortments. The evidence of this lack of economic management is to

be found along the paths of the pipelines. For example, along the

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Urengoy to Chelyabinsk pipeline 18.8 km of large diameter pipe were

tossed aside. After completion of the work during the winter of 1981

on the Urengoy to Gryazovets and Urengoy to Petrovsk gas pipelines

the builders abandoned 4.5 km of pipe on the paths. All of this is

the result of miscalculations in planning and of a lack of responsibility.

Yu. Sanin: The oblast Peoples' Control Committee checked the storage

of material valuables, in particular pipe, within Tyumenskaya Oblast.

This check encompassed more than 10,000 km of oil and gas pipelines.

As a result some 92 km of pipe were lifted out of water. Another

16 1 km of pipe had been picked up on the paths and 1,430 km of pipe

were shipped out from flooded areas. Those responsible were punished.

But the fact of such irresponsibility is cause for alarm.

V. Zaychenko: We can avoid pipe losses on the paths of the pipelines.

Many specialists are now being taken into the acceptance commission,

including even doctors. But there are no supply, workers within the

commission. Our representative would not sign a document accepting

a pipeline until all material valuables were removed from the path of

the pipeline .

The problem is that the pipe is not allocated to anyone in particular:

the ministry determines the total amount required, but as to who specifically will receive it no one knows. Nor do they know which specific pipeline is involved. The lack of a specific customer is becoming one of the reasons for the lack of sound economic planning.

In connection with this I will repeat the proposal made, but not realized, at the "round table" last year: a special section must be incorporated into the design-estimate documentation for the construction

of mainline pipelines. This section would describe the organization

of material-technical supply and would include the geography of the

deliveries and examples of the transport layouts.

G. Alpatov: ZapSibMVTK also has proposals for putting pipe into

economic circulation. Particularly pipe that has been in storage for

a long period of time. First, we believe that it is necessary to include in the accounting record (form 2SN) an indicator for the availability of pipe, which has been welded into a strand and which has been

laid but not handed over to the customer. Secondly, Gossnab must

deliver pipe only in the amount needed for the construction planning

period, taking into consideration the amount of pipe remaining. And

thirdly, we feel that the USSR Ministry of the Construction of Oil

and Gas Industry Enterprises should take an inventory and mark the

pipe that was delivered previously (right up to the year 1981). We

believe that it would be useful to ban the use of pipe in this year's

construction that -is being delivered now. In addition, the USSR

Gossnab has made a suggestion that concerns the organization of

supplying pipe to construction sites within the West Siberian oil and

gas complex. This includes the creation of storage bases in the northern regions of the complex and releasing pipe to the builders only

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in the amount actually needed for the planning period in accordance

with approved title lists and taking into consideration the amount of

pipe that was carried forward.

Correspondent: In our opinion, it would be wrong not to discuss the

positive side of this problem and what was done during the past year

in regards to deliveries. For example, we must point out that imported

pipe is now reaching the construction site only at the appointed time

and ahead of schedule. Insulating and welding materials are delivered

to the construction sites in accordance with the national economic

plan. In recent times the percentage of completeness of deliveries

has risen. Thus, insulating film, adhesives, and protective wrappings

are being delivered in assembly and in required proportions. While

last year it was not so easy to find a base where materials and equipment were stored in accordance with the rules, now visitors for an

exchange of experience are to be found at the bases of the trusts

Samotlorpromstroy, Tyumen'gazstroy, Tyumen'gazmekhanizatsiya, and

Tyumen'spetskomplektgazstroy. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. Other bases are needed which could receive pipe: in Urengoy,

Ser'gino and Tobol'sk. If the decision has already been made about

their construction, the means have been allocated for this. But, the

estimate was reduced and the bases are not being built.

This situation must be straightened out in the near future. And it

is the designers who must have the first word: how many, where and

what sorts of bases are needed in West Siberia to provide the uninterrupted supply of all that is needed to the construction projects.

/Question/ How are the contract obligations being met? Who of the

careless counteragents would you like to name in particular?

/Xnswer7 B. Trofimov: In this regard I will note that the transportation organizations, and particularly the RSFSR Ministry of the River

Fleet, are showing little responsibility for the condition of the

pipe that they are transporting. Sometimes they unload them from

barges onto unequipped and flooded sites. And the administrations of

the production-technological assembly trusts are not demonstrating

the needed exactingness toward the enterprises of river and railroad

transport for damage to pipe. Frequently the result is that the

damaged pipes are not being repaired and are not being used. We

believe that the transport organizations should be made more responsible for the ooondition of the cargoes that they deliver.

V. Zverev: In recent v times the number of cases reviewed by the

Tyumenskaya Oblast State Arbitration for Capital Construction has

increased. Thus, while in 1979 there were 292 such cases, there were

360 last year. The number of fines has increased significantly: 2.4

and 5.1 million rubles respectively.

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What is characteristic? There is a particular increase in the number

of claims being made for unfinished work. Approximately one in every

five or six jobs in capital construction is subjected to scrutiny for

damage caused by waste in work. Thus, a fine amounting to 12,300

rubles was levied against the Nadymgazpromstroy Trust for failing to

eliminate unfinished work on compressor station No 5 in the first

strand of the Komsomol'skoye-Surgut-Chelyabinsk gas pipeline. Sanctions were used against this trust on two other ocassions. The

Arbitration organization's report was sent to Glavsibtruboprovodstroy

and the project itself was placed under control. After a certain

period of time the unfinished work was eliminated and the station was

put into operation.

We initiated cjuite < a few claims according to materials of

the oblast office of Stroybank, with which the Arbitration office

has established close contacts. Based upon the importance of the facilities being built, together we plan which of them to take under

control, when and where to check the carrying out of contract conditions. Following these checks the arbitration authorities when necessary institute action on the use of sanctions against careless counter

agents. Thus, on the basis of materials of Stroybank we examined the

possibility of levying fines against the Yugansktruboprovodstroy trust

for failing to complete work on the 0 - 140 km sector of the YuzhnoBalykskiy GPZ /gas refinery_/ product pipeline to the Tbbol * sk petrochemical combine on time. The arbitration office determined that thi

was a flagrant violation of the conditions of the contract by the subcontractor. Increased sanctions were used and a 87,150 ruble fine

was imposed; the money was paid into the all-union budget. In the

course of the meeting it was explained that this product pipeline is

being built by three trusts of Glavsibtruboprovodstroy and that the

work is proceeding unsatisfactorily along the path of the pipeline.

In connection with this all work on the product pipeline was taken

under the control of Stroybank and the arbitration office and Glavsibtruboprovodstroy was notified of the action.

What were the results of such reports and particularly the later case

that was just discussed?

After a certain period of time the management of the main administration responded that in organizing the construction of the product

pipeline the necessary order was established and measures were taken

to eliminate the shortcomings. At the same time the management of

the main administration, it was reported later, is examining one of

the reasons for the situation that has evolved in the inadequately

clear legal work within the collectives of these trusts. In connection with this there were seminars and meetings, where the problems

noted by the arbitration office were discussed. Also monthly training courses were organized and conducted to raise skill levels of the

legal services workers and workers from the estimates and contract

and production-technological departments of the construction trusts.

In several subelements vacant legal positions were filled and the

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USSR Ministry for the Construction of Petroleum and Gas Industry Enterprises was asked to create legal offices and groups in those administrations of the production-technological assembly trusts and at the

motor vehicle bases of the main administration where there were none.

Correspondent: The latest data: up until now within Glavsibtruboprovodstroy the positions of legal advisors in the UPTK /product iontechnological assembly administration/ of the Urengoytruboprovodstroy ,

Priob'truboprovodstroy, and Kazymgazpromstroy trusts were not listed.

As before the personnel staffing does not require legal^ advisors within the Orgtekhtruboprovodstroy trust and in the UMTS /material-technical supply administration/ of the Glavsibtruboprovodstroy administration itself. And, apparently, it is no accident that the arbitration

office is especially frequently examining claims against these very

organizations. Contract work is poorly organized here. Lastyyear,

for example, the Kazymgazpromstroy and Urengoytruboprovodstroy trusts

concluded subcontractor contracts as late as May. This year the picture with concluding contracts is no better. They are late both in

drawing up the contracts and in submitting the planning and estimate

documentation. By the beginning of March of this year the trusts

of Glavtyumen'neftegazstroy /Main Administration for the Construction

of Petroleum and Gas Industry Enterprises in Tyumenskaya 0blast7 did

not receive documentation for more than 64 million rubles worth of

work for the 1982 construction and installation work plan. This represents one seventh of all construction and installation work for

the year .

/Question/ The development of which normative documents in connection

with the"~problems raised here today do you believe to be necessary?

/Answer/ N. Kurbatov: We are trying to fill in the gaps that exist

Tn our subelements in the legal regulation of relations through our

branch normative development work. Thus, last year a component part

in the "comprehensive system for managing the quality of construction"

of the main administration was the "sequence for preparing documents

for filing claims for deliveries of substandard pipe and disrupting

pipelines during the testing period", which was compiled by the legal

service of Glavsibtruboprovodstroy. This document contains all legal

norms, with which the workers must contend while laying the pipelines.

There are two other local normative documents - an agreement concerning the protection of labor and safety equipment and also on questions

having to do with economic activity in capital construction - these

documents were prepared with the help of scientists from the Sverdlovsk

Juridical Institute.

This is the normative development work that we are doing ourselves

within the main administration. Unfortunately, a no less important

area of work falls out of this: normative development work at the

ministerial level, for example. Thus, quite recently, in January 1981

the SNiP /construction norms and rules7" governing "mainline pipelines"

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went into effect; it was approved by the USSR Gosstroy. As they say

this is a fresh document. It would appear that it provides a basis

to expect that the collection of materials would take into consideration the conditions of our construction work this year. But here are

the paragraphs describing the laying of the pipeline in the ground.

What are norms for Central Asia and what are norms for us. A "step"

for pipelaying in the central regions, for example, is one kilometer

and it seems that it is the same for working in the tundra? But in

the tundra one cannot always cover a distance of one kilometer in a

day. And the initial leg of the pipelines is in a permafrost area.

What rules are we to be governed by? We page through the book. None

are provided !

B. Trofimov: I remind you that in the charters of the transport organizations it is necessary to stipulate that they must increase their

responsibility for the safe delivery of the cargoes that they carry.

G. Alpatov: In our opinion there is a need to come up with a definition of what comprises the West Siberian oil and gas complex. We have

several documents which say that the "West Siberian complex is the aggregate of enterprises, organizations and institutions...". In deciphering this concept we see that they are engaged in drilling, extraction, and processing. Consequently we see that this includes about

eight different sectors. But what about transport and construction

materials? How can we get along without these? Our opinion everything that comprises the "complex" in practice should be reflected in

the appropriate normative documents.

To continue. There is an instruction on our commission which lists

its duties. According to this instruction, our participation in the

development of the complex consists of developing proposals and issuing recommendations. We believe that the commission must not only

discuss these or other problems with the involved parties, but must

also make decisions and formulate them as a protocol so that we can

know who to ask. Our ties with the ministries are now in disarray:

we can act only through one level, i.e., through the USSR Gosplan.

We believe that, in considering the location of the commission, it

would be wise to give the commission the legal right to coordinate

matters which are included in the functions of Gosplan departments

on a regional basis.

Correspondent: Much hope is placed upon the work of the Interdepartmental Commission in helping to solve the problems of the oil and gas

complex in Western Siberia; already its first steps attest to the

effectiveness of creating such a commission directly at the construction project that is being planned. Now we must improve its legal

situation, which will make it possible for the commission to do a

better job.

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And one must agree with the opinion that the lack of legal foundations, which clearly regulate the organizational and economic forms

of work included in the territorial-production complex of the subelements of the various ministries and departments, reduces the efficiency of the work of these subelements and does not permit them

to make full use of production reserves. This is a fair comment, in

our opinion, both in regards to the proposal to increase the responsibility of the transport organizations for the safe delivery of the

cargoes that they carry and in regards to the reproach from the

builders about the lack in the "Mainline pipelines" SNiP of norms and

rules governing the conditions of laying oil and gas mainlines in conditions of the North.

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Speaking on 30 March 1978 before party and economic managers from

Tyumenskaya Oblast, Comrade L. I. Brezhnev emphasized the need to more

fully and efficiently use available resources and pointed out that

particular attention must be given to questions of capital construction. He also pointed out that there must be no disruptions in the

schedules for completing production capacities. It is thought that

this instruction is appropriate for the workers of West Siberia, who

are solving the key tasks of the 11th Five-Year Plan, today as well.

COPYRIGHT: Izdatel'stovo "Ekonomika", Khozyaystvo i pravo", 1982

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PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION REPORT

Moscow IZVESTIYA in Russian 19 Jul 82 p 1

/Article by B. L'vov and G. Panushkin: "The Great Construction Pro- __

Ject of the Five-Year Plan: In the Rhythm of the 'Workers' Relay Race'V

/TextJ The first 300 kilometers of large diameter pipe have

b~een~~welded into place on the Urengoy to Uzhgorod pipeline.

Along almost the entire 5,000 kilometer stretch of the route from

Urengoy to the Carpathian Mountains work is steadily moving forward.

The first 300 kilometers of the export mainline have been welded into

a "strand". More than 1,000 kilometers of sections of pipe of the

future gas pipeline have been readied at welding and installation

bases, from which they are transported around the clock by gigantic

pipe-carrying trucks to the route for connection into a continuous

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and lay the readied pipeline. Brigades of divers and builders are

leaving for the shores of the numerous rivers. The first 100 kilometers are ready to receive the natural gas.

In the "gas corridor" along the export route two more mainlines from

Urengoy to Yelets will be built during the current five-year plan.

Work here will take more than one year. For this reason along with

the production bases and assembly and repair points the construction

workers will establish some 53 field housing sites. They will do

this work for good reason giving careful thought to equipping them

well while achieving a maximum of conveniences and comfort.

But the workers of the USSR Ministry for the Construction of Oil and

Gas Industry Enterprises are not inclined toward taking it easy. As

everyone knows the construction of the Urengoy to Uzhgorod is being

done on a compensation basis in accordance with the largest in international history of trade-industrial relations _ agreement, which has

come to be called symbolically the "gas pipe". The agreement, in

which West Germany and several other nations are participating, will

make it possible to a given extent to augment and stabilize the fuel

and energy balance of the involved governments and to provide work

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to thousands of workers through the production and delivery to the

USSR of large diameter pipe and some equipment in exchange for Siberian

natural gas.

In response to the attemt of the USA to disrupt the construction of the

transcontinental gas pipeline from Urengoy to Pomary to Uzhgorod and

to the so-called "sanctions" of Reagan we have had widespread meetings

and workers' assemblies. The participants in these meetings - along

the path of the pipeline, in the machine building enterprises and in

the designing and research institutes - have unanimously asserted their

resolve to get by without the foreign "benefactors" and to introduce

new reserves which will enable them to complete the construction project ahead of schedule.

The newspaper IZVESTIYA has already reported on the decision of the

collectives of the associations of the Leningrad Nevskiy Zavod imeni

V. I. Lenin, the Sverdlovsk Turbomotornyy Zavod and others to speed up

the production of equipment for this key project and that many collectives have chosen to participate in the competition on the "workers'

relay race" principle.

The CPSU Central Committee and the USSR Council of Ministers have

approved the patriotic initiative to ensure the timely completion of

the mainline gas pipeline from Urengoy to Pomary to Uzhgorod.

Good news is coming in these days from all sectors of this enormous

construction project and from the machine building enterprises and

the scientific-research and designing institutes.

V. Volkov, who is working on the main shoulder of the pJLpeline and

who is a brigade leader in the Severtruboprovodstroy /Northern Pipeline Construction Trust/, has reported that "by the 60th anniversary

of the formation of the USSR I will have fulfilled assignments which

were to have taken two and a half years of the five-year plan."

His comrades have supported this initiative. They include the collective of V'J Madenov's column, which is headed up by the brigade of

B. Diduk; the crews of the pipe-section transporters B. Rybalko and

0. Baklenov. The increased pledges of the Nadym construction workers

rely both on the personal mastery and a solid technical base. Within

the trust progressive methods of executing the work are being introduced successfully. They have switched to automatic welding using

two chambers and have refurbished the welding racks for two centering

guides; they are adopting lines for the automatic welding; and they

are making extensive use of circular metal brushes for cleaning the

edges of pipe. They have assimilated new pipe welding bases of the

BTS-152V type for the two-sided automatic welding of 1,420 mm:diameter

pipe, new PAU-1001V units which are equipped for welding pipes which

have been insulated at the plant.

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With each day the pace of rotating welding increases within the collectives of the Komsomol'sktruboprovodstroy /Komsomol'sk Pipeline Construction Trust/ and Novosibirsktruboprovodstroy /_Novosibirsk Pipeline

Construction Trust/ trusts. Work is proceeding successfully on the

road which will carry cargoes for building the compressor station.

Other participants in the "workers' relay race" are also keeping their

word - the designers. For example^ the collective of the Voronezh department of the Giprotekhmontazh /State Planning and Designing Institute for Equipment Installation/ Institute have completed work on the

design for executing work at the Kurskaya compressor station a full

month ahead of schedule. The high-speed assembly unitized installation has been stipulated, which calls for the maximum combining of

construction and installation work.

The Leningrad machine builders will complete the assembly of the first

series-produced gas pumping unit with a rated capacity of 25 MW by the

end of this year rather than next year as planned. After this the

units will come one after the other. The scientific-production complex which was established in Leningrad is capable of quickly and efficiently solving this task. The complex is comprised of well-known

firms such as the Leningrad Metallurgical Plant, . the Leningrad

Turbine Blade Plant and other associations.

All enterprises are manufacturing machinery on a cooperative basis.

Scientific-technical problems are being solved in close contact of

associations, academic, branch and learning institutes.

The production of domestic pipelayers,:bulldozers and. other construction equipment is increasing sharply in Sterlitamak, Cheboksary, and

at the machine building plants of the USSR Ministry of Construction

of Petroleum and Gas Industry Enterprises itself, this includes those

that are located in Siberia.

The flow of equipment created by Soviet scientists, designers and

machine builders of the sector is increasing. This includes dozens

of types of modern machinery and mechanisms for constructing mainline

pipelines in any natural and climatic conditions. Included here, in

addition to the heavy pipelayers, are powerful rotary excavators with

a productivity of more than 1,200 cubic meters of earth, including

permafrost, per hour; explosive charges with a 25 meter depth

penetration and a productivity of 300 cubic meters per hour; and the

"Tyumen"' all-terrain vehicles, on the platform of which a powerful

excavator can be installed. In addition, a solid welding base has

been created.

The "Sever-]" automated welding complex, which is used for electrocontact automatic welding of large diameter pipe, is quite unique.

In productivity it is dozens of times superior to manual welding and

has no equal in the world. The "Sever-1" will join hundreds of kilometers of the West Siberian to Western European pipeline into a continous strand and it will have significantly speeded up the work.

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Thus, the gigantic construction and installation conveyor is steadily

picking up the pace of work. The considerable amount of experience

that was accumulated by the builders and creators of the new equipment and techniques, the broad scope of the socialist competition on

the "workers' relay race" principle, and, finally, the daily and allencompassing assistance to the construction project by the party,

local government and economic organs are a real basis for the successful completion of work within compressed time periods.

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KÜYBYSHEV OBLAST PIPELINE REPORT

Moscow PRAVDA in Russian 6 Sep 82 p 1

/Article by V. Shalgunov, PRAVDA correspondent, Kuybyshevskaya Oblast:

"""The Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod Mainline: Success of the 'Workers' Relay

Race'V

/Text/ The first stage in the operational testing of a gaspumping unit for the Urengoy to Pomary to Uzhgorod gas pipeline has been completed.

Kuybyshev, Sumy, Leningrad, Kiev - the enterprises and design bureaus

of these cities have transferred the "workers' relay baton" to one

another and within very short periods of time have achieved a remarkable result. The unit displayed a high productivity and reliability.

It was developed at a level equal to the best models of the world.

M. Pashchenko, an engineer and designer from the Sumy branch of a

special design bureau for the creation of air and gas pipe cooling

equipment, reports that "the capacity of the unit has been significantly increased. It can pump twice as much gas within a 24 hour

period as electrodrive units which were used at a nearby compressor

station of the Urengoy to Petrovsk gas pipeline. The high degree of

compression is provided by an original blower, which operates in a

two-stage circuit. We did not have anything like this before. The

collective, which is headed up by chief designer N. Fedorenko, has

found several efficient solutions."

The designers were primarily concerned about the maximum automation

of the unit. The continuous operation of the compressor stations at

remote locations, especially in conditions of the north, leads to

many concerns and expenses. And there is a minimum number of maintenance personnel, three times fewer than usual. Another concern is

the need to operate in an automatic mode and the possibility of using

remote control. At present specialists from the Kiev Institute of

Automation imeni 25th Party Congress, the Scientific-Production Association Burevestnik and the Lomonosov Specialized Installation and Adjustment Administration are preparing to hand over to the interdepartmental commission an automated system for monitoring the unit. The

series production of such systems, which have a universal application,

has already been started by the enterprises of the USSR Ministry of

Instrument Making, Automation Equipment, and Control Systems /Minpribor7.

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The collectives of the trust Kuybyshevtruboprovodstroy /Kuybyshev

pipeline construction trust/ and its subcontractors worked tirelessly

to build an experimental-industrial unit. The brigades of A. Safronoy,

N. Kirichenko, P. Mayorov, A. Ovchinnikov and others prepared the

foundations and installed the technological pipelines and equipment

within record times. The assembly of the unit itself was rather simple - its parts are delivered to the construction site in a fully

plant-ready status. It was only necessary to join them together.

Moreover, the sizes of, the assemblies, which have a reduced amount of

metal in them, are such that they can be loaded on an airplane or helicopter. This is an important advantage in roadless conditions!

The unitized layout execution also makes it easy to service the unit.

All assemblies, including the engine, can be easily removed and replaced with new ones.

The conscientious labor of the collective of the Sumy Machine Building

Association imeni M. V. Frunze, which manufactured the important assemblies of the unit, deserves the very highest marks. The Sumy builders had previously attained a reliability standard in their work on

the helium plant in Orenburg. American firms had attempted to stipulate extremely unsatisfactory contract conditions. We had to reject

the transaction. The Sumy machine builders managed to manufacture

the complicated highly-productive equipment, which was just as good

as the imported equipment. And now once again they maintained the ihiigh

reputation of Soviet machine building.

One of the features of the new unit, which distinguishes it from the

traditional machines of this type, is the use of an aircraft engine.

The Kuybyshev designers and engine builders, having modernized the engine, created a powerful drive for the blower. It performs reliably

at temperatures ranging from plus 50 degress to minus 50 degrees, receiving its power from the same fuel that is flowing through the gas

pipeline.

No one participating in the creation of the unit heard any harsh words.

The work proceeded at an everyday, intensive pace to ready the unit for

the second lengthy stage of testing in concert with the automated control system. They discussed the news from Chuvashiya: the Kuybyshev

comprehensive Komsomol flow-line of L. Mikhel'son has y added: another

kilometer of finished pipe on the Urengoy to Uzhgorod pipeline and is

leading in the competition. The large family of the pipeline workers

with the support of the entire Soviet Union is carrying out the work

entrusted to it with honor and virtue.

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CONSTRUCTION OF PETROVSK COMPRESSOR STATION BEHIND SCHEDULE

Moscow SOTSIALISTICHESKAYA INDUSTRIYA in Russian 27 Jul 82 p 2

[Article by V. Isayev, head of the department of the editorial staff of the

newspaper LENINETS: "Construction Site Without a Conductor"]

iTextJ This compressor station is located not far from Petrovsk, on the route

of the Urengoy-Novopskov gas pipeline. Number 25 on the line, in the second

quarter of next year it should already be operating. It would seem that there

is time. But the current rates of construction are such that it may not be

enough. In 8 months of work not even the contours of the auxiliary rooms and

main shop where eight powerful superchargers should be placed have been

designated.

Monolithic reinforced concrete foundations for themshould have been installed

in April. Only three were ready by the end of the first 6 months. The closed

platform for storage of equipment and the service block are being installed at

low rates. But the general contractor, trust No 2 "Sarotovgaznefteprovodstroy"

seems not to notice the lagging.

The leaders of the trust, the head I. Pil'nik, were not concerned that the work

front be covered more rapidly by the subcontracting organizations. Many of them

should already have completed work, but they have not even appeared at the site.

Those organizations which have arrived are not working at full force.

"Our brigade," said the brigade foreman of installers of SMU-1 M. Ivanov, "is

often lagging because there is not enough concrete, there is a delay in the shipment of columns and cross bars."

"We are now installing the repair-operation block," the man in charge A. Andrianov enters the conversation. "The rates are very low. The reinforced concrete

structures are shipped irregularly, and the sequence of their shipment is mixed

up. As a result of the planned volume of work worth R 212,000, only 12,000 has

been fulfilled."

The discrepancy in the shipments of reinforced concrete has been noted many

times at the planning sessions which are held at the construction site. However, the Saratov trust "Zhelezobeton" of Glavprivolzhskstroy has not taken the

proper measures in order to improve the situation.

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By the way, the important object is being held back not only by the lack of

discipline in the suppliers of the structural parts . The machine operators of

administration No 22 which is performing the excavation operations is not dis- "

tinguished by high discipline either because of absences from work which occur

fairly often, and equipment is idle.

Having encountered an object of such purpose as a compressor station for the

first time in its practice, the general contracting trust is indecisive in the

leadership of the construction site. Back in the autumn of last year, the trust

delayed in every possible way takeover from the client of the area. The laying

of a road was delayed for a long time which created additional difficulties.

The trucks with the freight could not travel to the facilities. As a result,

starting from April up to the middle of May, the construction of the compressor

station was actually halted.

Now the first violin in the construction orchestra is the mobile mechanized

column No 378. However, the technical potentialities of this organization are

low. The mortar-concrete assembly which it has is not very powerful and it does

not provide the construction site with concrete. The assembly is also located

several kilometers from the site. A.concrete assembly should be installed in

direct proximity of the erected station because there are artesian wells already

here. But the general contractor is not using this potentiality.

A headquarters is operating at the construction site. Every Tuesday it discusses the course of construction of the station. But meetings are held first

by the representatives of the central board, then the trust, and there is no

one person who would be responsible for the entire facility. Without this

conductor it is difficult to set up smooth operation of 20 organizations who are

subordinate to different trusts.

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PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION REPORT GIVEN FROM YUGAN RIVER

Moscow KOMSOMOL'SKAYA PRAVDA in Russian 22 Aug82 p 1

{Article by V. Grannik, our correspondent: "Ahead, the 'Blue River'"]

iText] The mobile correspondent point of KOMSOMOL'SKAYA

PRAVDA reports: "On the Urengoy-Uzhgorod route 500 kilometers of gas pipeline have been welded into a line.

Intensive work on the evening of the forced crossing of the

Yugan is going at full speed."

I washable to talk with the chief engineer of the trust "Komsomol'sktruboprovodstroy Yu. A. Fedorov only on the way to the route. These days there is no time

to sit in offices. Yuriy Aleksandrovich related:

"Our section on the Uzhgorod trunkline is 200 kilometers. A hundred and forty of

them are swamps. The task is to lay the pipes on the dry segments of the route

before the frosts."

There are 60 kilometers of dry sections. Having said this, the chief engineer

laughed. Soon it was clear why. We arrived at this section, sand, an even road,

and suddenly on the next turn, a pipe layer sunk up to the cab. It moved to

the Uzhgorod route, and "sat" on the reliable place, on the log road laid not so

long ago.

So these 60 kilometers are not at all simple. A day later I heard a selector

meeting which was held by the deputy head of the trust N. N. Likhograyev. Reports were given from the settlement of Kommunisticheskiy.

"Nikolay Nikiforovich! Seven kilometers of log roads have been laid to the

river. Pipe carriers have been sent on a trial inspection. They passed but

just barely. We have to add more fill. Give the command to the machine operators."

"You will have equipment. We will finish with the road and immediately organize

a crossing over the Yugan in order not to delay. "

Near the station Sobolinoy the brigade of welders of Viktor Logvinov is working

on the route. I visited there at an important moment: coming to the Uzhgorod

trunkline, the fellows were to weld the first butt joint.

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The brigade foreman sat on top of the pipe and directed the actions of the machine

operator-pipe layer Aleksey Yeremenko. He maneuvered the length of pipe, holding

it on a weight. It is jewelry work to center two lengths. The pipe is almost

half a meter in diameter and the gap is 3millimeters. Only 3, no more no less.

It is done! The main seam is confidently welded by the most skillful. These are

the veterans Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Vakhrushev, Adol'f Vyacheslavovich Musatov

and the young people, Nikolay Medvedkin and Nikolay Sudakov. The brigade foreman is pleased: the seam has been excellent. This initiative will be continued.

The brigade of Logvinov has created a literal wonder on laying the gas pipeline

Urengoy-Novopskov, 250-300 percent per shift, and this is 1.5 kilometers and

more. The line part of the gas pipeline was constructed several months ahead of

schedule mainly because of the efforts of this collective.

"I am pleased with my fellows" says the brigade foreman, "we have been together

for about 10 years already. We were based in the Chelyabinsk trust. We did not

search for easy routes. Therefore we are here in the north. Our supplements,

the young people, become accustomed to the brigade and acquire confidence."

After the first butt joint there followed a second and third. The brigade moved

forward at a rate customary for it.

I was a witness to the following: it was necessary to move the equipment urgently

from one section to another. At night. Acall came from a dispatcher station

to Sobolinaya. And Valentin Chernik, Nikolay Obraz, Mikhail Makeyev spent all

night with this emergency work. The next day, they worked as usual on the scaffolding.

These people hold in their hands the key to the route. They are the overwhelming

majority in "Komsomol'sktruboprovodstroy." Redistribution to the new "corridor"

took place on short schedules. The equipment which had noticeably "tired" at the

previous routes was brought to a condition of combat readiness in a few days.

From the first days of its existence, the trust set up good rates. The route

unites the people. They have already fallen in love with the kray in which they

are now living.

The route of the Uzhgorod gas pipeline passes in an uninhabited "corridor."

This caused additional difficulty. The first of them was to build up the new

areas and to feel at home from nothing. The miscalculations of individual leaders, the inertia of thinking, customary concentration only on the "pipe" and

on production questions unfortunately had an effect. This is not hidden in

Komsomolskiy: they should have thought earlier about the route cities and the

daily life of the route workers, and more seriously. Then there would not be

such unexpected situations where the trailers, standing without movement for

several years in the old "corridor," seemed tobe not so bad, but when they were

moved they literally began to fall apart.

By the way, the enterprises who supplied the trailers should.be criticized. For

example, the Bugul'minskiy, Bolokolanskiy plants fulfill the orders of the

ministry in far from complete volume.

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Recently the "Komsomol'sktruboprovodstroy" severely criticized the office of the

Soviet party raykom: construction of housing is developing slowly in the settlement and all the plans are interrupted. The situation should be corrected as

fast as possible. The mood of the route workers is being spoiled because the

start-up of cafeterias and stores is being delayed in the field cities.

The trust has completed organizational reconstruction: instead of the customary

administrations, cost-accounting production lines will be operating. Everything

will be concentrated in one fist, starting from the cleaning of the route and

ending with laying of pipe in the trench.

We returned already after dark. The pipe-carriers creep to meet us with rumbling. Fedorov glances into the space lit up by headlights :

"We are confident of success. Everything that we need comes to us in good working order. Pipes are coming from Japan. The overweights and insulation film,

all is sufficient. There is powerful equipment. And the people, you have seen

what kind of people we have! We will therefore fulfill our program ahead of

schedule, despite the sanctions!"

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LVOV PLANT PRODUCES PIPELINE COMPRESSOR STATION EQUIPMENT

Moscow KOMSOMOL'SKAYA PRAVDA in Russian 18Aug 82 p 1

[Article by F. Bil'din: "Green Light for the Order"]

[Text] Preparation for series production of complicated

equipment for the compressor stations of the UrengoyUzhgorod gas pipeline has begun at the plant "L'vovpribor."

"Komsomol guarantee for the important order!" This was the initiative of the

Komsomol-youth collective of installers-regulators headed by Aleksandr Aleksandrenkov. Assembly shop No 9 in which the fellows work, is young. Every

second worker is under 30. Now they are involved in assembly, installation and

regulation of the units for the gas pumping stations. The order for fabrication

of the units of the new modification designed for the Urengoy-Uzhgorod gas pipeline did not take the workers of the shop by surprise.

"Shop No 9 has been producing unit A-705-15 for gas and oil pipelines of the

country," relates the secretary of the plant committee of the Komsomol Vladimir

Bat'kov, "for 3 years already. The workers of the shop are constantly going to

the construction facilities where the units are being set up and pass the product

to the customer from hand to hand. This accelerates a great deal the introduction and produces a great economic effect."

The brigade foreman of the regulators Yaroslav Sologub recently returned from a

trip to the city of Gryazovets in the Volgod Oblast from the facilities of the

association "Ukhtatransgaz." Together with the head regulator, the young Communist Sergey Mezin they trained the service personnel of the gas pipeline to

operate the instruments, adjusted them and started them, and conducted preventive

maintenance on the previously installed instruments. Our fellows are therefore

obliged not only to fulfill the important order, but also to completely perform

installation, adjustment and start-up of devices.

The patriotic initiative of the L'vov instrument builders is being reinforced

even now by specific actions. Jointly with the council of young scientists and

specialists, the young installers and regulators are now studying the technical

documents for a new unit. A lot has been changed in its new modification. This

study will make it possible to complete fulfillment of the order 10 days ahead

of schedule. The leading working brigades of Komsomols Dana Yavor, Dmitriy

Sabatovich, Yevgeniy Simets and others are assigning the tone in the studies.

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However, the success of the assemblers depends on how the entire collective of

the plant works, and all the involved subdivisions. The workers of the enterprise understand this.

During the meeting against the discriminatory measures of Reagan which took place

at the plant, the brigade foreman of the section of the central assembly shop

No 32, delegate to the 19th Komsomol Congress Galina Yatsyshena called upon all

the production engineers to support the initiative of the brigade of Aleksandrenkov.

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OILAST NEWSPAPERS REPORT ON PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION

Moscow EKONOMICHESKAYA GAZETA in Russian No 35 ,Aug 82 p 13

[Article by T. Trofimova: "Out-of-Town Editors on the Route of the UrengoyPomary-Uzhgorod Gas Pipeline"]

[Text] Special appendices have begun to be issued for the oblast newspapers

ZVEZDA (Perm Oblast), VOLZHSKAYA KOMMUNA (Kuybyshev Oblast) KURSKAYA PRAVDA and

for the republic newspaper PRAVDA UKRAINY at anumber of sections of construction

of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod export gas pipeline. They are being issued jointly

with the press center of the Ministry of Construction of Oil and Gas Industry

enterprises and come out once or twice a week.

In one of the last issues of the appendix to PRAVDA UKRAINY under the title

"Each Kilometer Ahead of Schedule" it is reported that the collective of the

comprehensive production line No 1 of the association "Soyuzintergazstroy" has

been obliged to complete main operations on the first 60-kilometer segment of

the gas pipeline in the eastern Carpathians by the 60th Anniversary of the Formation of the USSR.

The next issue of the Perm ZVEZDA discusses the high limits which the gas builders of the trust "Tatnefteprovodstroy" have.set. They have decided to complete

line operations on the 214-kilometer route in the fourth quarter of this year

instead of the third quarter of 1983.

A conversation is published with the head of the trust "Uralneftegazstroy" V.

Barmin. The collective of this trust is involved in laying the line part of the

trunkline and building the compressor stations.

"Our facilities are mainly in the Gornozavodskiy Rayon of the Perm Oblast and in

the region of the city of Nizhnyaya Tura of the Sverdlovsk Oblast," says V. Barmin. "The local organizations are giving us perceptible help. Dozens of dynasties of builders and installers of pipelines are working on the route. Hero of

Socialist Labor, brigade foreman of installers Ivan Mironovich Davydenko is

working with three of his sons."

One of the best in the route is the family crew ofLevinyy. We are proud of our

veterans, Heroes of Socialist Labor brigade foreman A. Poturnak, machine operator of the pipe layer A. Yeferin, and head of the mechanical workshops V. Orlov.

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Contacts of the builders on the "worker's relay race" with the collectives of the

plants supplying materials and equipment arebeing strengthened. I will cite

such an example. Funds for wood-fiber boards for construction of the compressor

station were allocated for the end of the year. The builders asked the workers

of the Bratsk lumber industrial complex to accelerate their shift. Only 6 days

passed when a car with boards was sent.

The sheet of socialist competition of KURSKAYA PRAVDA informs the readers about

the leading experience of welding-installation work done in the all-union

school.

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PERSONAL STORY TOLD FROM PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION ROUTE

Moscow SOTSIALISTICHESKAYA INDUSTRIYA in Russian 20 Aug 82 pp 1-2

[Article by N. Limonov, our special correspondent: "Boldinskiy Summer"]

[Text] The entire country is watching the construction

of the gas pipeline system which begins at the Urengoy

field. Especial .attention is being focused on the export gas pipeline Urengoy-Uzhgorod. Its route extends

4,650 kilometers through the itaiga, swamps, rivers,

and mountains, in uninhabited and densely populated

regions.

Work is being done by comprehensive production lines

equipped with modern equipment. They are doing everything, from preparing the trench to delivering the

finished section. But the gas pipeline is not only a

"pipe" in a trench. It is also buildings for the

gas pumping stations, settlements and communications

lines. The builders of the gas trunklines have to

work in the most difficult conditions, but they are

doing their work well.

Man is laying the route, and the route is educating

him in persistence, courage and collectivism.

With the essay of N. Limonov "Boldinskiy summer"

(read on page 2) we open a new column which will

publish stories about people and work of the most

important construction of the five-year plan.

This was how it was.

Call the airport: Yurik is flying in. Send tank trucks to the route. Arrange

the students. Decide matters with the police, collect figures for the selector

meeting, select the linoleum for the reading room. Successfully come from

the route for the arrival of my grandson. The devil only knows how much more

work.

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Thus, when she sat in the car it was already 10. Behind her was a representative from the trust, a specialist on standardization, who rivets/his

attention on his worn feet (its serves him right for coming to the route in

foppish shoes!) and the correspondent flopped heavily on the seat. Only there

was not enough room for him here! And so they went. No one in the car spoke.

We did not need this kind of weather, oh we did not need this, complained

Valentina Yakovlevna, and these thoughts pushed into the background even the

expectation of joy of the arrival of Yurik whom she had not seen for a month,

and it already seemed she had not seen him for a whole eternity. Before the

season of bad roads it was necessary to lay 30 kilometers of pipes, and then

there would be no work. The driver^ aces of their work, on a dry route can only

make two trips, and that is with getting up at 4:00 and finishing the work at 9:00.

The head of the garage had been repeating over and over again for several days

that it was time to give them a rest for a couple days in order to strengthen

their nerves, and he was right of course. Today it is Sunday, in Bolshiy

Boldin it is the holiday of flowers, the bus is in the city, but there are::few

customers for everyone left for the route before the dawn.

The brushes of the yard keeper hum monotonously, the depressed trees are standing, and for some reason the correspondent did not want to believe that namely

here the great poet in the sad time had seen for himself fascination. As always

in the beginning of a business trip, he did not know how the material would

look, what kind of people he would meet, and he was uncomfortable inside because

of this indefiniteness.

The road traveled along the route, and the pipe of the gas line was lying

near by, somewhat simular to a large sated snake.

"Here," Belyayeva turned to the correspondent. "See it is a simple matter:

we welded the base from two pipes a! length, we take it to the pipeline, welded,

insulated, bury it, restore the soil as it was. The peasant soil here has

been fertilized by the sweat of welders, machine operators and drivers. But

at times we have to cut even into the sown field.

My heart hurts, because we are working immediately on the entire route, from

the marker 2479 to the marker 2598. According to science, all the people

should work on one kilometer: they lower the pipe, the bulldozer recul^

tivates, and on the same day the land is given back to the kolkhoz. A kilometer per day. Our commitments are 1200 meters per day. We are coping, but

not always."

Valentina Belyayva was appointed the head of the line on the section from the

settlement Yaz in the Gorkov Oblast to the river Moksha in Mordoviya in

November of last year. Work began in February of this year. Until this

time equipment and housing were rebased from Ukhta and transferred. Two weeks

they lived in trailers at the station Uzhovka while they were serching for the

place for the new city. Finially they found an old sand quarry on the edge

of a pine forest. Valentina Yakovlevna loaded the workers together with their

children and wives into buses and the place was approved. Now there is a city

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with all the attributes which make temporary life permanent, Above the gailydecorated trailers and "barrels" there are *arn-.fca.mn as/and; bird

houses, automobiles are near by. The children ride around on bicycles and

mopeds, play in the fairy tale city cut from pine, and large good natured dogs

follow them everywhere. A strong sapling is growing in the office of the head

of the line, lord knows where she threw a orange piece into a pot and has been

carrying it everywhere with her for several years.

In a word, this is the normal life of the route workers, but here is what is

new in this life. Previously the route was built by four-five trusts, each

in their specialization, and this looked like a standard construction site

with its commotion, sep ration and indifference to the interest of the neighbor. Now one line on its section does all types of work and Valentina

Belyayeva commands all of this work. Preparation is underway to move the

line to a single contract for which the specialist for standardization has

come from the welding-installation trust. The famous cost-accounting excavation brigade of Hero of Socialist Labor Yaroslav Antonovich Myakush is already

bringing its equipment here from Novopskov.

The picture of pipelaying is full of beauty, greatness and some special

elegance. Five 100-ton pipelayers, slowly following after each other almost

close to each other, carefully hold the body of the pipe with their claw

fingers on rubber wheels. The pipe is lowered into a deep trench. Belyayeva

stops the car, and they stand at a distance. Thus people in the cities

observe for hours the powerful movement of ice on a river.

Valentina Yakovlevna approaches the trench, and it seems that something does

not please her. She waves her hand. The noise of the mechanisms stops and

through the rain and interruptionsin the wind we hear her excited voice.

"Are you watching where you are laying the pipe?" She asks the man in charge.

"It needs a soft pillow and there is a rock."

"Not a rock, clay." the moustached young man in the green raincoat on broad

shoulders looks at her somewhat indulgently. Just like at a woman.

"No it is a stone. What if you break the insulation? What if there is an

explosion? Do you remember that this will hold 75 atmospheres?"

"I have been doing this for eight years and I know my work."

"And I for 20 years, and I have never had a break. We must do our work

cleanly and return the land to the kolkhoz workers. We have to do it so

that no one around is afraid that 75 atmospheres is under him."

The correspondent listened to their conversation and thought people like this

man in charge do not sow and do not reap, they are born. Although he is

arguing, and another is" looking at you, agrees and does everything the

opposite. This is remaining from the old days, for the man in charge came

from another department, but now there is one-man management and he is not

allowed to get away with it. Valentina caught him, but with malicious joy

he thought.

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"If you have been on the route for 20 years and are such a specialist, you can

also supervise," said the man in charge. "And I am quite capable of packing

my trunk."

Then they talked, the head of the line furiously tore off::her hat from her

head, kneaded it in her hands and again pulled it on. Then she silently

turned, pushed her hands into the pockets of her raincoat and decisively

went to the car. There one brigade foreman was already sitting dejectedly.

She had removed him from the route.

"These people do not understand. I say to the man in charge: "Volodya,

why have you not lined 10 butt joints? And he says to me: The welder says

that the deputy minister himself allowed him to weld in advance of the lining.

I ask him again: the deputy minister is not obliged to know the technology

of welding. But you are. Burrs on the body of the pipe means that the

insulation can break. I collected the welders and for half an hour read them

the specifications. And these are specialists."

Now she no longer removes her cap, but nervously ties and unties the!.laces of

her raincoat and speaks in the voice of a tired person who is fed up with

repeating the same thing to her subordinates, but who, however, is accustomed

to getting her own way.

For a long we were silent in the car, the sun peeped out, and the birch trees

on the side of the road illuminated by it, shake from themselves the heavy

drops and stand beauties, turning to meet the GAZ car. For a long time

Valentina was still bothered by her storming.

Yes, the route does not put up with familiarity and flippancy. In 1972, when

the gas pipeline central Asia-center of the country was built, they came from

Tuley and Adzhigelda for oxygen. Then she was wearing canvas shoes and at

first did not notice that the driver was barefoot. And when the radiator

boiled over it turned out that they had left without water. Never mind,

the driver calmed her, we will get there. And then he said: the first

few meters are the hardest.. Then he was silent. Eight hours in the

desert without water and without a road, what this is like only one knows

who has been there. They got to the topographical triangle, and there they

found tracks in all directions, but did not know which to follow. The driver

somehow climbed on the sign, but saw neither end or an edge to the burning

silence. They were only saved by the fact that they left late, and when

suddenly night came upon them, in the distance they saw the lights of the

compressor station where they had been that day. The driver could not walk,

and she as she could dragged him. And at the compressor station they could

not drink even the water as if everything burned inside. The driver then

could not work for a long time, and never went into the desert in any case

barefoot and without water.

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And now this good-looking man doubts that she knows her work on the route.

The Gorkov oil refinery is difficult to take in with a glance even from the

air, and when she came there in 1957 after the technical-school, camomiles

were growing around the field. The route was started in 1962 when she and

her husband were building the branch to Kostrom. In 1963, the oil line

"Druzhba" stood in the Orlov Oblast, and 1965-1966 the route Shaim-Tyumen.

Shaim-Tyumen is swamps and darkness and us in the middle. It is quite a

wild place, taiga, and 500-meter pipes and equipment are brought in only by

helicopter. She flew no fewer hours than any other pilot, and her head hurt

from the noise of the propeller but how beautiful is our Siberia from a height.

In a word, Shaim-Tyumen, the swamps and the darkness well also not forget us.

It was youth, people were in love with work and made up songs with an accordian.

The winged helicopter flies back and forth.

He carries those who are very strict with us.

But he can see, this winged god,

How we are living

On the Sherdinskiy road.

And they lived, as now, as they always lived, as one family. An event for a

comrade is joy for the entire city. Korchagin Aleksandr, one of my best

welders and his wife is a nurse. His father is also with us, a machine operator for many years on the route. Their daughter was born on the very day

when the first length of the Urengoy-Chelybinsk line was tested.

Where we route workers have not been, what we have not seen. The apartment in

Ukhta, we lived there perhaps a total of two months. Now an apartment in

Podolsk, everything in a dusty pile, and we have not lived there even two days.

Here, on the route, this is my house and these are my people without whom I

simply could not live a day. The pig-tender Boris Basil'yevich, is a

machine operator on the pipelayer and has been 27 years on the route. I worked

back with his father. His wife Lidiya Konstantinovna is now our offLcial in

charge of quarters. She plays on the accordion and together we composed a

song about the winged helicopter. I taught their daughter Ira to walk,

and she is- already married.

Who else is traveling on all the routes with me? Moiseyenko,Nikolay

Vasil'yevich. His wife is in the boiler shop, and he is a welder, and they

have two children. Gorobets,Petr Nikolayevich, is a machine operator. His

wife receives the freight at the station, and his son Yura works for his

father as a scaffold worker. How many families have we accumulated, dynasties

of workers, probably more than a dozen. By the way, only the strong remain

on the route. Anyonewhose only goal is to collect money will not survive. We

have our own life, and I would never change this life for any other.

No I am happy, she summarized her thoughts, I have a good husband, a good son,

a good grandson and good people around. As for the handsome fellow, the man

in charge of the insulation-laying work, we still do not know where he will end

up. Perhaps he will be one of us, if he understands what he has to do.

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Her hands stopped nervously bending the laces of her raincoat and were calmly

lying on the handle of the GAZcar. In a low voice she began to sing about

the winged helicopter, although it was not winged, but that was how they had

composed it. She was not a professional in this business, she was a professional in another.

The journalist sat in the rear seat and already knew that he would return to

the editorial staff not with empty hands. This Belyayeva he thought is from

those who represent their work not as an appendix to their personal life, but

as a method of existence, and even not a continuation of that personal life.

Work: is simply life, and that is all.period. It has long been decided and

written. This is why is always light and festive around these people. This

is why they always attract people who for no other reason would be attracted

to them.

The sun was completely cleaned of clouds and the city of route workers was

already visible. Valentina^Belyayeva, having moved to a seat, was already

trying to look among the children running around the territory for her

Yurik.

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PIPES SHIPPED ON NORTHERN RIVERS

Moscow SOTSIALISTTCHESKAYA INDUSTRIYA in Russian 31 Aug 82 p 1

[Article by V. Busygin, engineer of Glavsibtruboprovodstroy: "Large Loads

On Small Rivers"]

[Text] By the joint efforts of the river workers of the Irtysh steamship

company and the subdivisions of the Glavsibtruboprovodstroy, a new water

route has been developed which previously was considered unnavigable. On

the taiga river of Kazym , pipes, equipment, housing trailers have been shipped

to one of the sections of the central construction site of the five-year plan,

the Urengoy-Uzhgorod gas pipeline.

The idea for this unusual expedition was born back in April. Then, in examining from a helicopter the Tyumen section of the Urengoy-Uzhgorod route,

the head of the trust: "Priob'truboprovodstroy" I. Sukharev noted near the

upper reaches of the Kazym an excellent dry land landing site. But the feature of the small northern rivers is such that at the mouths they are shallow

and it would not be easy to lay a new route on this capricious section of the

water road.

They prepared carefully for the first trip. On the 105-kilometer segment of

the river, about 200 navigational signs were installed. The most experienced

navigators of the shipping company were appointed captains of the tows. Then

the expedition, which was head by the head of the Khanty-Mansiy river port

A. Dremov, captain-teacher V. Chadov, deputy head of the trust

"Priob'truboprovodstroy" A. Gornitskiy set out on the long-distance and

difficult passage.

Beloyarskiy, the base settlement of the route workers in the northern Ob

region was behind the stern. Small motor ships "Vostok" and "Fregat"

traveled in front of the caravan of ships. Their task was to explore the

route, and help the tows in critical situations. Then followed the floating

crane and barge which held 2,000 T of pipes.

There were many difficulties on the route for the participants of the expedi^:.".

tion, especially on the steep turns of the river where the nose of the barge

was sometimes separated by the shore only by centimeters. Once, when the

most complicated section of the river road had been safely passed and it seemed

the danger was over, a whirlwind suddenly flew out from the tops of the pine

forest, and with a stiff wave beat against the side of the ships, and pushed

them from the navigable channel.

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Then the endurance and rich experience of the captains of the tows V.

Goloshubin and N. Khlyzov came in handy. They were native Siberians and

since age sixteen had been navigating river vessels. The man in charge of

the section of passage operations A. Nikulin held a constant watch, temporarily becoming the navigator. Without knowing ^either sleep or rest,

together with his assistants he measured the depth of the navigable channel,

determining the safest passage.

This route lasted 18 hours. Others followed. As a result the builders of

the gas trunklines were delivered 30 km of pipes of large diameter, trucks,

pipe-layers, parts of the welding base,and house trailers. This is a great

advantage in time. The line operations in the taiga are usually conducted

in winter since in summer it is impossible to ship freight to the routes under

construction because of the lack of roads. But this time the 30-kilometer

segment of gas pipeline will be constructed before the onset of the cold.

How can you evaluate the joint experiment of the Irtysh river workers and

the builders of the Siberian gas pipelines?

"As we were convinced, the reserves of the small northern rivers are actually

great," says the head of Glavsibtruboprovodstroy, N. Kurbasov. "The river

workers of the Irtysh steamship company for the first time utilized them

and our workers thank them for the help. All of us just have to be better

prepared for the next trip. For if it had started two weeks earlier, then

we could have shipped not 30 as this time, but all 90 km of pipes needed

by the builders of this route section."

The strict schedules for construction of the Urengoy-Uzhgorod gas pipeline

and other gas routes dictate to us the need to intensively work in the summer.

This primarily depends on the river workers, who have not yet coped with the

planned volume of freight shipment for the builders. For example, our base

settlement of Beloyarskiy should have received through navigation by the

Irtysh steamship company 683,000 T of freight. By 1 August it had only

successfully shipped 347,000 T, and by the end of navigation only promises

to ship no more than 50. That is about 300,000 T of freight again will remain

at the transfer base in Sergino. We can only supply them to the builders

in January when the 0b rises. But the central board does not have this

quantity of transport (5,000 trucks).

There is only one way out of this situation, effective use by the shipping

company of the great potentialities of the small northern rivers. This was

recently discussed at a meeting which took place in the Tyumen party obkom.

It is true that we were not able to fine a common language with the supervisory worker of the RSFSR Ministry of the River Fleet. We received the same

answer to all our arguments about the primary importance of the central construction sites of the five-year plans: there are no barges. And they say

that they will not travel on the small rivers when the water is drastically

dropping.

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Of course the river workers have many difficulties. But in these days remains

ing to the end of navigation, the entire small fleet should concentrate on

most important central construction sites of the five-year plan. It is also

possible to use tows with shallow draft in the shoals. At the mouth of the

Kazym it is only neccessary to place another dredge in addition to the one

that is already there in order to deepen the navigable channel.

The subdivisions of the Glavsibtruboprovodstroy have a large volume of line

operations to complete in this route season. The success considerably depends

on the river workers.

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PIPELINES

AZERBAIJAN PIPE ROLLING PLANT PRODUCTION DESCRIBED

Yerevan KOMMUNIST in Russian 19 Aug 82 p 2

[Article by Z. Gasanova, senior zinc plater of the Azerbaijan pipe rolling

plant, Hero of Socialist Labor: "Towards New Success"]

[Excerpts] In December of this year the Azerbaijan pipe rolling plant imeni

W.V.I. Lenin, the leader in ferrous metalurgy of the republic will be 30 years

old. We, the veterans, have witnessed the glorious path that the collective

of the enterprise has traversed during these years. You go through the shops

and it seems that they are infinite, the plant is so spread out and expanded.

Today the Azerbaijan pipe rolling plant is an open hearth furnace with six

smelting furnaces, with blooming and pipe-preparing mill. In the international

collective of::the enterprise there are several thousand people.

The main product of the plant is pipe of oil grade.. We also manufacture

pipes for ship building, oil refineries and petrochemical industry, and

machine construction. Out product is in great demand both in our country

and abroad.

A:lot of attention is focused on improving the technological processes, updating equipment, and mastering efficient types of pipe design. Thus, the

open-hearth shop has introduced a number of new technological processes which

improve the structure of the ingot, the rolling shop has replaced a considerable part of the equipment, introduced automated and semiautomated production

lines for cutting pipes and couplings, two of them with numerical program

control, and a new one has been started for production of drilling pipes.

As a result of the joint efforts of the VNIITI [not futher identified] and

the plant collective, a plan has been born for reconstruction of the pipe

rolling unit 250-2, as a result of which for the first time in world practice

high-temperature thermal treatment of pipes on the production line has been

implemented. In the future, the plant will be able to supply tens of thousands

of tons of high-quality, high-strength casings.

In a word, the changes have been good.

The pipe-rolling shop is the largest at our plant. There are 65 brigades

working here. Among them is the brigade of Bayram Bekhbudov. It has finished

the 10th Five-Year Plan in four years and six months. It has decided to complete the 11th Five-Year Plan in the same period. This is a rare case in

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netallurgy, especially if you consider that the members of the brigade B.

Bekhbudov are manufacturing pipes of oil grade which are difficult to fabricate. The plant collective, having started the intensive watch in honor of

the 60th anniversary of formation of the USSR, decided to fulfill the annual

assignment by 29 December, to manufacture above-plan products totalling

R 600,000,to smelt above the plan 800,000 T of steel, and to provide finished

rolled products for more than 1200 T.

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PIPELINES

PIPELINE EQUIPMENT PROVIDED BY ARMENIA

Moscow SOTSIALISTICHESKAYA INDUSTRIYA in Russian 13 Aug 82 p 3

/Article by N. Ordinyan, correspondent, Yerevan: "From Armenia to the

Gas Pipelines of Siberia^/

/Text"/ Mobile electric power stations and generators, compressors and

t~r an"sf ormer substations, gas welding and gas cutting equipment - it is

not easy to enumerate all the types of machinery that is being manufactured by Armenian enterprises for the gas pipelines of Siberia.

And, of course, the most important of these manufactured articles come

from the republic's newest machine building enterprise - the Oktemberyanskoye experimental turbounit networks plant.

This plant specializes in the manufacture of articles for automated

gas turbine assemblies and mobile compressor stations for mainline gas

pipelines. It is this plant that produces devices for absorbing the

noise created during the operation of the powerful compressor stations,

This year the machine builders are completing preparations and will

just begin to produce the "Sokol-2" unit for the monitoring and regu-^

lation of work modes of gas wells. These units will be delivered to

Urengoy and to other gas fields within the Soviet Union.

At the same time the plant is working on three other new kinds of

equipment for the GPU-10 gas pumping units.

A. Sarkisyan, a fitter from the plant's mechanical repair section and

a delegate to the Armenian SSR's 27th Party Congress, reports, "the

collective of our plant was the first in the republic to support the

patriotic initiative of leading Soviet enterprises - to use our own

resources to manufacture everything necessary for the Siberian gas

pipelines using Soviet equipment and technology. At our party meeting

we unanimously resolved to sharply increase output, to improve the

quality of equipment for the gas pipelines, and to assimilate the production of new product by November, ahead of schedule."

The gas welding and gas cutting equipment that is manufactured at the

Avtogenmash Kirovakanskiy plant is in great demand. It is being used

in the construction of the Urengoy to Uzhgorod gas pipeline.

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In view of this, the Kirovakanskiy machine builders decided to speed

up the delivery -to the Siberian construction projects of ..the "Orbita"

and "Sputnik" machinery which are used to weld and cut large diameter

pipes. They decided to give special emphasis to the "Orbita-2", which

can cut pipes along a straight line and at any angle, which makes it

possible to considerably reduce time periods for in.s:t aliling assemblies

of the gas pipelines, which require elbows and outlets.

The pace of work at the plant is picking up. In July the machine builders forwarded ten "Sputnikov's" and "Orbita's" - three more than called for in the plan - for the construction of Siberian gas pipelines.

The collective of shop No. 3, where gas cutting machinery is manufactured, is working with special enthusiasm. Many lathe operators, fitters and assemblers, and electricians are consistently fulfilling

their daily assignments by 120 to 130 percent.

S. Pogosyan, brigade leader of the fitters and assemblers of this shop,

reports, "we are convinced that all Siberian gas pipelines will be in

operation on schedule. We have decided to speed up by three months

the fulfillment of orders for the Siberian construction projects."

While preparing this report, I received a telephone call at the correspondents' office for SOTSIALISTICHESKAYA INDUSTRIYA in Yerevan from

Kirovakan. E. Bodzhikyan, the director of the Avtogenmash plant, informed me that Kirovakan had shipped another batch of "Sputnik's",

"Orbita's", and 'ASSh-70" , which are used for mechanizing auxiliary

work in the construction of gas pipelines, to the Urengoy to Uzhgorod

pipeline project. The schedule of successful work is being sustained

by the Kirovakan workers with honor.

Armenian gas pipeline workers came to the final sector of the transcontinental gas pipeline in Zakarpat'ye at the start of this year.

They quickly threw up two well-appointed towns for 400 men and organized receiving points for cargoes at nearby railroad stations. They also built a welding and assembly base and established a communications

system.

S. Kazinyan, the chief of the Zakavkazkoye pipeline construction administration, reports, "pipelaying work in the Carpathian Mountains is being done by two of our reinforced comprehensive flow-line brigades,

which are staffed with builders in all specialized skills. They complete one kilometer every 24-hours. This indicator was achieved by

the construction workers of the administration on the pipeline sections between Urengoy, Petrovsk and Novopskov."

From the ground clearing for the Bogorodchanskaya compressor station

the technological flow-line operation headed by S. Gevorkyan began its

path to the border of Czechoslovakia. From Uzhgorod comes the collective of the second -flow-line operation headed by M. Gambar'yan. Before these two -organizations meet they must overcome the mountain

chain of the Carpathians with its steep cliff's and slopes and landslide sections.

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The Armenian gas pipeline builders are picking up the pace of work.

Twenty-seven kilometers of pipe have been welded into a strand. Some

15 kilometers of trench have been dug and 11 kilometers of the gas

pipeline have been laid. But this is not the best that they can do.

At a meeting in Ivano-Frankovsk the pipelayers announced their decision

to complete by the 60th anniversary of the formation of the USSR the

first 100 kilometers of the pipeline and to hand over the entire Carpathian section by the end of 1983, six months ahead of schedule.

For the successful fulfillment of the pledges that were made the gas

pipeline builders of Armenia have joined the socialist competition on

the "workers' relay race" with the collectivei' of the Production Association Prikarpattransgaz /Carpathian Mountains Gas Transport Association/ .

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PIPELINES

BRIEFS

EARLY PIPE SHIPMENT--The Khartsyak pipe plant has shipped pipes of large diameter to the builders of the export gas pipeline Urengoy-Uzhgorod ahead of

schedule. Since the beginning of the year the plant has already shipped

500,000 T of.pipes. The manufacture of products rose because of the mastery

of the output of the new electrical welding shop. The Komsomols and young

people of the city did alot of work to create it. In cooperation with the

specialists of the Institute of Electric Arc Welding imeni Ye. 0.;Paton of

the Ukrainian SSR Acadamy of Sciences, the Khartsy^pipe rollers have

introduced into the shop plasma cutting of metal and other technical innovations. [Article by V. Badov, our correspondent] [Text] [Moscow

KOMSOMOL'SKAYA PRAVDA in Russian 10 Aug 82 p 1] 9035

PIPELINE ADVANCES—The installers, electric welders and builders from the

Order of the Red Banner of Labor trust "Vostoknefteprovodstroy" are building

the Urengoy-Novopskov gas pipeline at the Bashkir and Perm sections. Up

to 1,000 m of pipes are welded every day at .the Bashkir section in the region

of the Moskovo settlement. The collectives from the trust "Vostoknefteprovodstroy" are competing for a worthy meeting of the 60th anniversary of the

USSR. Ahead of the workers is important labor on the gas pipeline UrengoyPomary-Uzhgorod. [Text] [Moscow KOMSOMOL»SKAYA PRAVDA in Russian 10 Aug 82

p l] 9035

EARLY COMPLETION OF COMPRESSOR STATION—Orenburg—Construction of the Sokovskiy compressor station on the gas pipeline Urengoy-Petrovsk has been completed considerably ahead of the standard schedule. Siberian gas has been

sent to the new station. The installers from the trust "Yuzhuralelekromontazh"

G. Golovachev, G. Prytkov and A. Antonov distinquished themselves at the

construction of this important facility. High indicators in labor were also

achieved by the collectives of the trust "Orenburggazstroy" and the brigade

of A. Shishkov from the trust "Orskpromstroy." [Article by I. Payvin, our

in-house correspondent] [Text] [Moscow SOTSIALISTICHESKAYA INDUSTRIYA in

Russian 18 Aug 82 p 1] 9035

GAS PUMPING UNIT—At the Novgorod gas compressor station, a 25-megawatt gas

pumping unit has successfully passed testing. It was manufactured in the

Leningrad production association "Nevskiy zavod" imeni V, I. Lenin. The

purpose of these units is to supply natural gas of West Siberia to the

Eurpean sector or the USSR on the system of gas pipelines with diameter 1420

mm under pressure 75-100 atmospheres. [Text] [Moscow EK0N0MICHESKAYA GAZETA

in Russian No 35,Aug 82 p 3] 9035

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PUMPING STATION—Soon another pumping station will be added to the oil pipeline Surgut-Polotsk. It has been erected in the Yaroslav Oblast, at the

settlement of Koromyslovo. [Text] [Moscow EKONOMICHESKAYA GAZETA in Russian

No 35,Aug 82 p 3] 9035

PIPES LOST—The Tyumen Surgut is rich in ownerless metal scrap. Whole mountains of collected iron are rising, for example, on areas near schools. But

Vtorchermet is not using them, and the signals of "Komsomol searchlights"

do not help. Thirty-two pipes costing R 77,000 have been "neglected" in

Zubakinskiy Yaru. They were "lost" during transporting by the trust

Pnob truboprovodstroy." A year ago the city committee of people's control

entrusted the trust "Surguttruboprovodstroy" with putting the expensive pipes

into order, but it is not hurrying to fulfill the order. [Article by A.

Leonidov and A. Shevchuk] [Text] [Moscow EKONOMICHESKAYA GAZETA No 34,

Aug 82 p 13] 9035

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TESTING EQUIPMENT FOR EXPORT PIPELINE--Equipment developed and now in

series production at the L'vov Mechanical Plant Remmekhgazprom will

help to determine if the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline is ready

to be operated. Today, a full month ahead of schedule, the Kuybyshevtruboprovod Trust received the first units for testing individual sections of the pipeline. In the shops of the enterprise other equipment

is being manufactured for the builders o_f the gas mainline; the work

is proceeding ahead of schedule. /Text/ /.Kishinev SOVETSKAYA MOLDAVIYA

in Russian 13 Aug 82 p \_/ 8927

DON PIPELINE—Tula--The order-bearing trust "Shchekingazstroy" has begun construction of the 53-kilometer section of the Urengoy-Uzhgorod gas pipeline along

the boundary of the Tula and Lipetsk Oblasts. On the right bank of the Don, the

first kilometers of pipes supplied here from theFRG were lying. They were joined

by the brigades of experienced welders Ye. Mestoivanchenko, V. Proskurin and the

Komsomol-youth collective under the supervision of I. Svirid. It is now a hot

time at the construction site. The builders and installers are competing under

the motto "a kilometer of route per day!" This schedule is being strictly fulfilled. {Article by Ye. Valov, outside IZVESTIYA correspondent] [Text] [Moscow

IZVESTIYA in Russian 26 Aug 82 p 2] 9035

PIPELINE EXTENDS—Cheboksary—The segment of gas pipeline Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod

extends 130 kilometers on the territory of Chuvashiya. The builders have begun

to lay the steel pipes on this section. The local relief here is very complicated,

the route intersects deep ravines, rivers, railroad, and heavily traveled roads.

But the builders are full of decisiveness to finish the first length ahead of

schedule, by December. Acceleration of work has been helped by the creation of

a single production line at the section. It is reported that the welders and

installers, excavators and insulation workers, transportationworkers and electricians are now working on the final result. The Chuvash section of the route

has become a test site for the highly productive welding unit created in the

Institute of Electric Arc Welding imeni Ye. 0. Paton. This automatic unit practically excludes manual labor in welding butt joints on the 34-meter lengths of

pipes. [Article by TASS correspondent] [Text] [Moscow SOTSIALISTICHESKAYA

INDUSTRIYA 27 Jul 82 p 1] 9035

PIPELINE ENTERS UKRAINE—On the route of the export gas pipeline UrengoyUzhgorod which has passed through the central regions of the Ukraine, dozens of

kilometers of pipes have already been welded. The collectives of the special

administration No 12 and the construction-insulation administration No 10 from

the trust "Ukrtruboprovodstroy" only have to lay 117 kilometers of route. [Text]

[Moscow EKONOMICHESKAYA GAZETA in Russian No 35, Aug 82 p 3] 9035

PIPELINE DOCUMENTS ISSUED—Kiev—"Soyuzgazproyekt" is the chief organization for

planning main gas pipelines which are built on the basis of foreign economic agreements. The collective of planners has adopted a socialist commitment for early

completion of work on the unique construction siteof the export gas trunkline

in response to the discriminatory measures of the U.S. administration. One of

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the points of these commitments has been fulfilled: documents have been issued

which guarantee timely distribution of the orders for equipment, fittings and

construction parts for the compressor stations. Working drawings have also been

issued for the construction of three parts of the route over 1000 kilometers long.

[Article by Zh. Tkachenko, our in-house correspondent] [Moscow SOTSIALISTICHESKAYA INDUSTRIYA in Russian 8 Aug 82 p 2] 9035

PIPE LINING—Sverdlovsk—The collective of the chief plant of the production association "Uralmetallurgkonstruktsiya" is fulfilling all the orders for construction

of the Urengoy-Uzhgorod gas pipeline ahead of schedule. It. was planned to fabricate a thousand tons of pipe.lining for the compressor stations. The collective

found the reserves and has been obliged to make 300 tons more. In order to reduce

the time of installation on the gas compressor stations, the workers of the plant

decided to do their own installation and to send the customer finished assemblies . The fitters are fulfilling additional work by using the reserves of

improved labor productivity and condensing of the work shift. [Article by A.

Mal'tsev, our in-house correspondent] [Text] [MoscowSOTSIALISTICHESKAYA INDUSTRIYA in Russian 1 Aug 82 p 1] 9035

FASTER WELDING—-Ufa—The welding base setup in the experimental mechanical workshop of the Glavbostoktruboprobodstroy has doubled the rate of welding pipelines.

This equipment, passing successful tests, was sent yesterday to the builders of

the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline. Thenew unit guarantees semiautomatic

welding of two butt joints at once. Pipes are received and the welded lengths

are laid by a special device. A cab has been provided for the welders which

moves from butt joint to butt joint on rails. The entire base has a reliable

covering which makes it possible to weld under any weather conditions. [Text]

[Moscow SOTSIALISTICHESKAYA INDUSTRIYA in Russian 6 Aug 82 p 1] 9035

GASOLINE PIPELINE—Tyumen—Construction has begun on the Tyumen land of yet

another pipeline, for transporting unstable gasoline from West Siberia to Povolzhye. This valuable product of primary refining of casing-head gas is now being

sent to the enterprises of the chemical industry from the Tobol petrochemical

complex to the railroad in tank cars. The new line extending 1.800 kilometers

will guarantee more economical and smooth supply of raw material to the plants

of the Urals, the Bashkiriya and Povolzhye. The Tyumen segment of the route

extends 173 kilometers and has been entrusted for laying to the collective SMU-30

of the trust "Tyumen'gazpromstroy." [Article by M. Sil'vanovich] [Text]

[Moscow SEL'SKAYA ZHIZN' in Russian 21 Aug 82p 1] 9035

AUTOMATIC SWITCHES—Divnogorsk—The collective of the Divnogorsk plant of lowvoltage apparatus shipped to the Tashkent production association "Sredazelektroapparat" a batch of automatic switches 2 months aheadof schedule. They are

needed to complete the equipment supplied for construction of the Urengoy-Uzhgorod

gas pipeline. The automatic switches in the series "A-3710" are complicated to

make, and the demand for them is constantly rising. The fulfillment of the honorable order has been entrusted to the Komsomol-youth collective of installers

headed by A. Shubarov. The Komsomols have coped with the set task with honor.

[Article by S. Sadoshenko, our in-house correspondent] [Text] [Moscow SOTSIALISTICHESKAYA INDUSTRIYA in Russian 2 Aug 82 p 1] 9035

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GAS PUMPING UNITS—Khabarovsk—Four gas pumping units have been sent ahead of

schedule to the route of the Urengoy-Uzhgorod gas pipeline under construction

from the local plant "Energomash." Having supported the initiative of the collectives of the subcontracting enterprises, the Khabarovsk machine builders have

been obliged to fulfill the annual plan for shipping equipment to the important

construction site of the country a month ahead of schedule. [Article by Yu.

BalkanovJ [Text] [Moscow SEL'SKAYA ZHIZN' inRussian 22 Aug 82 p 1] 9035

SEVERNYY BALKUI GAS—Severnyy Balkui—The last lengths of pipes have been laid

at the construction of the gas pipeline Severnyy Balkui-Naip. The blue fuel of

the new field will flow on the underground artery to the chief structure of

Naip, and from here to the transcontinental gas pipeline Central Asia-center of

the country. North Balkui is the start-up object of this year. The unit of this

comprehensive gas preparation is being installed, and engineering piping is

being laid. The first group of operational wells has been drilled. Another

gas-extracting field is being born which will yield up to 3 billion m

3

of natural

gas per year. The start-up of the builders of the trust "Naipgazstroy" of the

new facilities will help the field workers of "Achakgazdobycha" to maintain a

stable level of extraction of energy and chemical raw material. [Article by A.

Vinogradov] [Text] [Ashkhabad TURKMENSKAYA ISKRA in Russian 13 Aug 82 p 2]

9035

SECOND GAS COMPRESSOR STATION—Lipetsk—The general contractor SU-6 of the trust

"Yeletstyazhstroy" has started construction of the second gas-compressor station

No 29 "Donskoy" on the territory of the Lipetsk Oblast on the super-long distance route Urengoy-Uzhgorod. The honor of removing the first shovel of ground

at the construction site was given to one of the best machine operators of the

trust of "Spetsstory" A. Rostotskiy, and it was dumped by driver V. Ushakov. A

labor competition has developed between the machine operators and the truck

drivers. [Article by N. Klimov] [Moscow SOTSIALISTICHESKAYAINDUSTRIYA in

Russian 18 Aug 82 p 2] 9035

ACCELERATED PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION—The gas pipeline Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod is

being laid at accelerated rates on the section passing through the territory of

Gorkov Oblast and Mordoviya. The drivers are intensively hauling 34-meter pipe

lengths to the route. The work is being done by experienced specialists who have

laying of the Ukhta-Torzhok, Nadym-Ukhta, and Urengoy-Novopskov gas pipelines

behind them. [Text] [Moscow EKONOMICHESKAYA GAZETA in Russian No 36, Sep 82 p

3] 9035

PIPELINE LENGTHENS—The rates of construction of the gas pipelines increase everyday. Over 500 kilometers of pipeline have been laid. Hundreds of enterprises

of the country are shipping domestic bulldozers and excavators, and welding automatic units to the pipeline ahead of schedule. The collective of the comprehensive

production line from the trust "Kuybyshevtruboprovodstroy" is working on the

section of the gas pipeline route which passes through Chubashiya. It is performing all types of line operations: excavation, insulation-laying, welding on

the 127-kilometer section from the Volga to the Sura River. One kilometer today

is the rate at which the pipe is moving to the west. [Text] [Moscow PRAVDA in

Russian 24 Aug 82 p 1] 9035

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PIPELINE REACHES UDMÜRT—Izhevsk—The first pipes have been welded on the Udmurt

section of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline. An important stage of work

has been done on the more than 150-kilometer segment of the trunkline which intersects from east to west the autonomous republic andwill pass through forest

thickets, swamps and rivers. There will be serious water obstacles: the Kama

and Vyatka. The direct arrival of the builders at the route was preceded by the

start-up of a large welding base in the city of Mozhga, where pipes are welded

into lengthy sections on special racks. Fifty kilometers of them have been

welded at the base and half have been shipped to the route. [Text] [Moscow

SOTSIALISTICHESKAYA INDUSTRIYA in Russian 24 Aug 82 p 1] 9035

PIPE-CARRIERS—Baku—The Baku machine construction plant imeni V. I. Lenin of

the association "Soyuzneftemash" is supplying pipe carriers for construction of

the Siberian-West Europe pipeline. Since the beginning of the year, 33 units

have been sent to Glavtyumengaz considerably ahead of schedule. - The collective

of the plant "Bakinskiy Rabochiy" has also sent a batch of special pipe length

carriers for construction of the gas trunkline. Each of these machines can

transport a column of pipes weighing 19 tons and 36 meters long under complicated climate conditions. Now the machine builders are preparing for the order

of the builders of the gas pipeline new pipe length carriers whose power will be

increased 1.5-fold. [Article by N. Zorin] [Text] [Moscow SOTSIALISTICHESKAYA

INDUSTRIYA in Russian 14 Aug 82 p 1] 9035

PIPELINE DELAY—Because of the warning signal in the newspaper of 6 June 1982

under the title "Pipes on Our Hands" Glavstroygazprovod reports that construction of the Irga-Vil'nyus gas pipeline (on the section Riga-Panevezhis) was

started in 1977. The allocations for this construction were not assimilated

annually by the contracting trust Lengazspetsstroy. Fulfillment of the construction-installation plan was: 1977 41 percent, 1978 45 percent, 1980 39

percent, and,1981 17 percent. There were no delays in the financing for the

entire period of construction. This year financing has not been drawn up mainly

because of the contractor who has refused to conclude the annual contract to

obtain the reaffirmed summary estimate. Taking into consideration that the summary estimate is reaffirmed with an increase in costwhich requires the agreement,

of the USSR Gosplan and the USSR Gosstroy, until this agreement is obtained the

customer is not able to supply the trust with the indicated estimate. However,

according to the existing situation, when the limit is up for individual objects

of the summary estimate, the customer has the right to finance the construction

site for 3 months within the general estimated limit by permission of the ministry. This permission has been given to the Minsk board of gas pipelines under

construction by the Ministry of the Gas Industry. After signing by the contractor of the annual contract, financing of the construction site will be found

by the customer. [Article by E. Ivanova, deputyhead of Glavstroygazoprovod]

[Text] [Moscow STROYTEL'NAYA GAZETA in Russian 16 Jul 82 p 2] 9035

WORK ON NORTHERN SECTION OF EXPORT PIPELINE--The final working blueprints for the northern and most complicated section of the UrengoyPomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline have been given to the builders ahead of

schedule by the workers of the Leningrad Giprospetsgaz Institute.

They were able to significantly establish normative time periods through

the use of overhead photography, which made it possible to select the

most convenient corridor for laying the pipeline. /Text7Kishinev

SOVETSKAYA MOLDAVIA in Russian 13 Aug 82 p l] 8927 - -

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UNDERGROUND EQUIPMENT—The construction of a collector for the water

from heavy rains at a depth of six meters, which will pass through the

Khar'kov Park imeni Artem, is well underway. But there are no traces

of the work to be seen - no ditches nor any damaged trees. A brigade

of the specialized construction administration No 1 of the Khar'kovspetsstroymekhanizatsiya Trust /Khar'kov special mechanized construction trust/ is performing the work using an underground machine for

the ditchless laying of a pipeline. The pipelaying is controlled by

remote control from a cabin located on the surface. The manufacture

of such steel "moles" was developed at the Khar'kov Mechanized-Repair

Plant of Glavpromstroymekhanizatsiya. These machines are capable of

doing horizontal drilling and of pulling pipe with various diameters

behind it. The pipe can range from 800 to 1,600 mm in diameter. This

year such steel "mole^s" n^ be available to the builders of mainline

gas pipelines. /Text/ /Moscow IZVESTIYA in Russian 19 Jul 82 p 2/

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CROSSING THE KAMA RIVER—It seems that it was only recently that the

Leningrad Specialized Administration for Underground-Technical Work

came to the shore of the Kama River; and already the first strand

of the underwater crossing - 650 meters of pipeline - rests along the

shore. Tests have demonstrated the excellent quality of the work.

This is a tribute to the brigade of I. Usenko, which received experience while working on the Northern Lights pipeline. /Text7

/_Moscow SOTSIALISTICHESKAYA INDUSTRIYA in Russian 13 Aug 8"2 p \J 8927

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GENERAL

UDC(658.26+622.6)(474.3)

LATVIAN SSR HEAT AND FUEL SUPPLY PROBLEMS DISCUSSED

Riga IZVESTIYA AKADEMII NAUK LATVIYSKOY SSR in Russian No 5, 1982 pp 72-76

[Article by V. A. Zebergs and A. Ya. Lazdin'sh, Physical-Energy Institute of

the Latvian SSR Academy of Sciences, Latvian SSR Gosplan: "Problems of the

Further Development of Heat and Fuel Supply for ;the Latvian SSR"]

[Text] In order to improve control over the development and functioning

of the fuel and engery complex (TEK) of the republic in the next 5-10

years, a special target comprehensive program has been developed for an

improved method of control of power engineering. It stipulates a comprehensive solution to measures for research and planning work, as well as :.

realization of these plans, construction of power engineering facilities

and their optimal operation. The process of controlling the power engineering complex, in .the same way as the actual development of the power engineering complex, is lengthy and continuous: starting from long-term forecasts

and long-term plans to five-year plans, plans and developments of specific

power engineering projects, their construction and operation of the existing

power engineering units based on current plans (see table). At each of the

stages of this process of control, there are problems which require scientific research and organizational measures. Primary attention in the target

comprehensive program for the development of the republic's TEK is focused

on the development and functioning of the system of heat supply and supply

of böiler-furnace fuel. Great time lag is observed in the development of

these systems, while the specific weight of consumption of fuel and energy

resources in the total fuel and energy balance of the republic is high.

Special requirements for improving the system of controlling the development of power engineering «are made because in the last 10-15 years there

has been a significant change in the structure of boiler-furnace fuel with

broad introduction of petroleum fuel and natural gas. The development of

gasification in the future will be expanded, however the rise in consumption

in petroleum products as boiler-furnace fuel will be restrained. Nuclear heat

supply plants and electric heat will acquire greater importance in the distant future for heat supply . Conservation of fuel and heat is one of::the most

important tasks indicated by the CPSU 26th Congress. It is known that the

existing technology of industry both' in our country and in all the indus-: :.

trially developed countries is fairly energy-intensive, however re-equipping

of industrial enterprises and the switching to energy-conserving technology

is a lengthy and complicated process. Re-equipping of industry is limited

not only by capital investments, but also by the potentialities of the machine

construction sector. In the next 5-10 years, by improving technology only

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about 10 percent of the required conservation of fuel and energy resources

can be guaranteed. Therefore in the subprogram for conservation of fuel

of the target comprehensive program for development of TEK of the republic,

primary attention is focused on improving the traditional task of conserva/-

tion: standardization, calculation and accounting of consumption of fuel

and energy resources, elimination of their losses, as well as organizational

and technical measures to improve the heat power engineering units which

do not require large capital investments in material resources. Under these

conditions it is necessary to count on a significant enlargement, and in

certain cases, an increase in the number of existing power engineering services

in industry and agriculture, as well as the creation of new services.

System of Controlling Development and Functioning of Heat and Fuel Supply

Temporal Level: .of Control Processes of Control

1. Forecasting and long-term a. Selection of energy carriers

planning and development of systems of

heat and fuel supply

b. Development of new types of

heat and energy units

c. Long-term planning of heat

and fuel supply

2,. Short-term and current a. Five-year and annual planning

planning (five-year and of heat and fuel supply

annual planning) b. Planning of construction of

facilities for heat and fuel

supply

3. Realization of annual plans

:.::' of heat and fuel supply

(control of operation of

existing heat power.engineering units)

c. Working planning for units of

heat and fuel supply

a. Operational standardization

of heat and fuel consumption

b. Measures for conservation of

heat and fuel

c. Measures for improving heat

power engineering units

In this case it is necessary to take into consideration the dynamics of

development of these organizations both in respect to the tasks to be solved,

and their number. In the initial period of development of new methods for

improving the operation of heat units, the power engineering services will

have limmited tasks with a large number of personnel. As the tasks are mastered and qualification and productivity improve, the volume and number of

tasks will be increased with the same number of specialists.

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A timely measure under these conditions • was the creation in the republic

of the association "Latviyas Siltums," whose main task is to improve operation

of a large number of small boiler houses.

Improvement in the technique of standardization, calculation and accounting

stipulates a deeper analysis of the losses of heat and fuel and the possibility of using secondary energy resources with different energy potential.

However, even now with the existing level of calculation of the energy indi^ .

cators, there are serious claims against the quality of fulfillment of the

statistical accounting for heat power engineering industrial enterprises.

Consequently, it is necessary not only to introduce units of modern measurements and control apparatus, but also to significantly improve the qualifica-^

tions of the specialist? of the power engineering services and to somewhat

increase their number. Under these conditions it may prove expedient to

examine the question of creating organizations to operate industrial power

engineering units or to create an industrial sector in the association

"Latviyas Siltums."

Especial difficulties in introduction of improved methods of standardization,

calculation and accounting of the consumption of energy resources developed

in agriculture. Here it is necessary to take into consideration the especilly

lengthy period for improving the skill of the power engineer of rural enterprises.

At the same time, as a rule, the agricultural specialiste still do not understand the value of improving energy supply as an impr tant lever for enhancing

productivity of the agricultural production and the quality of the products.

Currently the level of heat supply of agriculture is still low. Many farms

do not have heating-ventilation units and do not observe the required microclimate. The process of conservation of heat and fuel must occur simultaneously in agriculture where they are not sufficiently efficiently used,

and additional heat should be supplied to the farms and other facilities

of agricultural production where this is needed. Under these conditions

with a slight growth in the total consumption of fuel one can obtain a

considerable growth in output of agricultural products. The operation of

experimental industrial associations in Talsinskiy and Valmiyerskiy Rayons

did not yield the necessary results in this respect, since these regions

lacked the appropriate energy services. Bearing in mind the importance of

the problem and the especially complicated conditions for improving the power

engineering industry in agricultural enterprises, it is necessary that in

the agricultural-industrial associations the energy shop jointly with the

association "Sel'energo" set up in the system of the production association

"Goskomsel'khoztekhnika" begin to be involved in these questions. Calculation

of the standard of heat and fuel consumption and systematic verification

of their fulfillment, as well as instrument verification of the quality of

operation of the boiler houses (a minimum of once a year) should be guaranteed

primarily in the farms. It may prove expedient to entrust^servicing of the

large rural boiler houses in the future to the association "Latviyas Siltums."

One should note the important role of the extensive use of a practical experiment, which as a new and important stage not only in the development and

introduction of new apparatus and equipment of heat and fuel supply and the

use of fuel and energy resources, but also with the introduction of organizational measures to improve operation of power engineering heat units,

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was given a lot of attention in the developed target comprehensive program

for the TEK of the republic. The process of developing the new equipment

is.shown schematically in the figure.

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Plan forMmovement of Main

Heat Supply

Information in a Territorial System of Controlling

Key:

1. Development of new heat power engineering units

2. Fabrication of experimental samples

3. Laboritory testing of samples

4. Improvement in samples

5. Development by industry

6. Series manufacture of units

7. Broad introduction and operation of units

8. Experimental introduction under practical conditions of operation

In the target comprehensive program development of new plans of heat supply

in industry and agriculture is provided with the broad use of secondary

energy resources and natural heat which mainly will be employed in the distant

future (beyond the 12th Five-Year Plan). However even now there are a number

of heat engineering units and apparatus whose introduction could yield a

great economic effect, but there is no practical experiment of their operation.

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These apparatus primarily include the resources for automating centralized

systems of heat supply. In the Latvian SSR Academy of Sciences physicalEnergy Institute a gamut of thermal regulators has been developed for houses

which are supplied from a centralized system of heat supply which could save

from 20 to 30 percent of the heab Thermal regulators have also

been developed by other organizations. It is necessary to create in the

republic cities experimental apartments with completely automated systems

of centralized heat supply. This will make it possible to determine the

volume of operation and the tasks for comprehensive operation of automated

heat supply, since no automatic equipment can operate normally without its

regular checking and adjustment.

The problem with organizing a practical experiment of operation refers to

the same measure to automation of decentralized systems of heat supply.

Automated burners have been developed and are produced in our country for

small boiler houses on liquid fuel. However, in the majority of cases the

automatic equipment does not operate because of the lack of its high-quality

operation and regular checking.

Therefore an improvement in the structure of boiler-furnace fuel and supply

of highly effective distillate petroleum fuel of many thousands of small

boiler houses >, mainly in the rural regions, does not yield the expected

effect. When there are no automatic systems, the boilers operate with reduced

efficiency, overconsumed fuel, as well as labor resources for servicing the

boilers. Under these conditions an urgent measure is organization of experimental reference boilers and entire regions with completely automated boilers

where the volume of tasks and work for high-quality operation of the automatic

systems can be checked. This is expedient in the rural regions on the basis

of experimental energy shops in the agricultural-industrial associations,

since high-quality work of the automated burners not only yields conservation

of fuel, but also makes it possible to reduce other outlays, as well as the

number of service personnel of the boilers for use in the creation of services

to maintain the automatic equipment in energy shops of the associations.

This experiment will make it possible to determine the necessary fund of

spare parts and replaceable automatic units.

With the broad construction of nuclear power plants, the use of electric

heat becomes urgent, especially in agriculture and the communal-general sector

of rural populated areas and cities in regions of decentralized heat supply.

In contrast to industry under conditions where the consumers are less organized, practical development of electrical heat will have a longer period.

In the cities of the republic electric hotplates of domestic production are

already being used. Domestic industry also produces storage-battery electric

heaters for productions needs and apartments. The installation of these

electric heaters in apartments of the rural areas will be expedient together

with electric hotplates. However there is no practical experience of using

electric heaters and electric hotplates in the rural regions of the republic.

It is therefore necessary in the near future to plan the organization of

industrial highly electrified farms with the extensive use of electric heat.

It is necessary at :night to guarantee operation of storage battery electric

heater of reduced loads on the electrical system. This is also associated

with the introduction of definite automatic equipment (there are several

systems) and the corresponding rates for electricity.

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The reduced rate (1 kop/kW x h) for electricity in agricultural production

does not stimulate the use at night of storage battery electric units of

reduced loads on the electricity system. Even now the farms and other pro- :

duction facilities have a large number of electric heaters which generally

are used on the free rate. This is explained by the fact that often thermal

regulators are not operating (because of the lack of high-quality maintenance

and regular checking of the automatic equipment), and they cannot be used

without the presence of service personnel. But not only the consumer, but

also the electrical-supplying organization should be interested in regulating

the schedule for operation of these heat units (with installation of the

appropriate network automatic equipment). Even if there is ;no special

reduced night schedule, when the existing fleet of electricity-storage water

heaters is used at night, the electricity-supplying organization • could significantly reduce outlays for electricity supply to the rural regions and decrease

the subsidies to the consumers with a rate of 1 kopAkW x h through other

consumers. Therefore the appropriate network regions of the energy supplying

organization of experimental highly electrified farms.

Realization of measures which are stipulated by the target comprehensive

program for development of the republic TEK and improvement in control over

its development and functioning by extensive use of a practical experiment

is a new and complicated task. Not only experimental verification is stipulated under conditions of practical operation of the new production units,

but the most important is experimental verification of the organization of

high-quality operation of heat power engineering units and their automatic

equipment on a regional scale(in the rural locality) and apartments (in

cities). The organization of such extensive practical experiments is only

possible under conditions of a comprehensive program in which all the appropriate departments and enterprises of the republic participate. There is

no doubt that such measures conducted on broad scales in the Latvian SSR

are of interest for other regions of the country. This can help the planning

agencies of the country to conduct experimental organization of energy supply

in the republic as an experimental economic region. However, the conducting

of these measures advances additional tasks of the theoretical and applied

nature before the scientific and planning organizations of the republic.

In order to realize the method conclusions developed by these organizations,

significant improvement is required in the qualification of the corresponding

services of the energy supplying organizations and the organizations operating

the heat power engineering units;, and in individual cases, a certain increase

in their number. The latter, mainly will have a tempory nature, although:

the increase in number of individual energy services will be justified by

the achievement of the necessary saving of fuel and energy resources. This

is especially important in the near futrue when, as noted above, there is

no possibility of rapidly and in broad scales introducing energy-conserving

technology in industry and other sectors of the national economy.

COPYRIGHT: Izdatel'stvo "Zinatne"j "Izvestiya Akademiii.Nauk Latviyskoy

SSR", 1982

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