Getting connected to the gas supply network is unquestionably extremely important socially for the entire Kamchatka Peninsula because it will make it possible in the future to renounce deliveries of other energy resources currently supplied to Kamchatka and avoid the problem of interruptions in the deliveries. This will give the region much more reliable and stable energy and heating supplies, Miller told Medvedev..

The gas pipeline is 392 kilometres long, will use it deliver around 750 million cubic metres of gas a year to consumers in Kamchatka. Steam Power Plant-2 will be the first facility connected to the supply network. Over several years, in accordance with the programme drawn up Gazprom and the region’s authorities, new facilities will be connected to the network, including social sector facilities. The work is to be funded by the regional authorities from the local budget. Housing and utilities sector facilities will also gradually be connected to the network. By 2014, the gas supply network will be solidly and lastingly established throughout the region, according to Miller.

Miller said that by 2014, most social facilities in Kamchatka would be connected to the gas network.

Kamchatka residents are said to be nervous about the new gas network. "It's extremely dangerous," one told BSR by telephone. "This is an area with a lot of sesimic activity. The danger of a minor earthquake rupturing a pipeline could be serious."

This July the Gorely volcano on Kamchatka, continued to show signs of reawakening. Seismic activity remains above background, and scients from Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT) reported a new vent that had opened on the crater's inner SE wall, above the level of the lake. The vent opening was incandescent, and gas was emitted at temperatures of 800-900 degrees Celsius.

Neighboring volcanoes on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula acted up at the same time in mid-February 2010. Klyuchevskaya Volcano in the north and Bezymianny Volcano in the south both sent plumes skyward over a snowy landscape. The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this false-color image on February 13, 2010.

Reaching a height of 4,835 meters (15,860 feet), Klyuchevskaya (also Kliuchevskoi) Volcano is both the tallest and most active volcano on Kamchatka. It is a stratovolcano—a steep-sloped, conical structure composed of alternating layers of solidified ash, hardened lava, and rock fragments ejected by earlier eruptions. On February 11, 2010, the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT) reported above-background seismic activity at Klyuchevskaya Volcano, including gas and/or steam plumes reaching 6 kilometers (20,000 feet) above sea level, lava flows, and Strombolian eruptions—intermittent explosions or fountains of rock—roughly 300 meters (1,000 feet) above the volcano’s summit.

Dwarfed by its neighbor, Bezymianny reaches 2,882 meters (9,455 feet) above sea level. Compared to the volcano immediately to the north, it releases a smaller, thinner plume. Like Klyuchevskaya, Bezymianny is also a stratovolcano. On February 11, KVERT reported that Bezymianny was releasing plumes that could affect low-flying aircraft, and it might have experienced a moderate explosive event February 5–6, 2010. More significant seismic activity at Klyuchevskaya, however, obscured data from Bezymianny.

Kamchatka lies along the Pacific Ring of Fire—a seismically active area encircling the Pacific Ocean. Both Klyuchevskaya and Bezymianny were intermittently active in late 2009 and early 2010.

Drilling operations near Sobolev /Gazprom