The National Joint-Stock Company "Naftogaz of Ukraine" has completed construction and commissioned a branch gas pipeline in the city of Lyubeshiv, Volyn region of Ukraine. As reported to the "Novyny - Ukraina" agency by the company's press service, a solemn ceremony for the opening of the gas distribution point and the start of natural gas supply to private houses took place in the city of Lyubeshiv, Volyn region. The length of the branch gas pipeline from the village of Velyka Hlushka in Lyubeshiv district to the city of Lyubeshiv was 31.6 kilometers, the project cost was 31.4 million hryvnias ($7.056 million). Construction and commissioning works were carried out by the Main Gas Pipeline Management "Lvivtransgaz" of the subsidiary company "Ukrtransgaz" of NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine". Financing was carried out at the company's own expense. The constructed branch gas pipeline is connected to the main gas pipeline Ivacevychi-Dolyna of the Ukrainian gas transportation system. The throughput capacity of the branch to the city of Lyubeshiv is 109.4 million cubic meters per year. The commissioning of the gas pipeline and gas distribution point will allow gasification of the city of Lyubeshiv and 8 surrounding villages. As noted in the press service, "Naftogaz of Ukraine" will continue comprehensive gasification of Ukraine's regions. On October 29, 2004, the first phase of the "Rokytne-Dubrovitsa" gas pipeline in Rivne region, 52 kilometers long, will be commissioned. The branch gas pipeline to the city of Lyubeshiv in Volyn region was built in accordance with government documents on eliminating the consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident. Its first phase, 23.4 kilometers long from the city of Kamin-Kashyrskyi in Volyn region to the village of Velyka Hlushka, was built in 1997. Construction of the second phase of the gas pipeline to the city of Lyubeshiv was resumed in April 2004 at the expense of NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine".