MOSCOW, October 20. /TASS/. Gazprom has already completed construction of the Belogorsk-Khabarovsk gas pipeline to be an interconnector between the Power of Siberia and Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok gas pipelines by 94%, the Russian gas holding said.

"Gazprom is laying the Belogorsk-Khabarovsk gas pipeline to connect the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok and the Power of Siberia [gas pipelines]. Construction readiness of the facility is 94% at present; the process connection to the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok and the Power of Siberia was made," the company said.

Earlier reports said Gazprom plans to complete construction of the interconnector pipeline, which is the first stage of the Eastern Gas Supply System trunk gas pipelines project, by the end of this year.