Construction of the Amur GPP is in line with Environmental Standards
The results of a regular environmental monitoring of the Amur Gas Processing Plant (GPP) construction site and the area in the vicinity of the nearest residential block show the the Project is executed in strict compliance with environmental standards.
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In particular, the results of a daily ambient air monitoring show that construction works have no influence on the nearest residential area, i.e. the Yukhta settlement. The content of pollutants measured in check points do not exceed the admissible limit values, same as prior to the start of construction.
Biological analysis also confirms that environment components on the territory of the Amur GPP construction site are in compliance with the range of admissible impact. There are no dumps of construction debris, solid wastes and effluents, neither traces of oil spillage on the construction site and access roads.
Constant production environmental monitoring (PEM) is carried out in accordance with the Russian environmental legislation requirements for the purpose to obtain reliable information on the status of environment and its changes during the construction works at each stage of the Amur GPP construction. As a part of PEM, monitoring points were installed in the area of facilities under construction, where samples are collected. Qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis of samples is done by the Centre of Laboratory Analysis and Technical Metrology, FGBU (Federal State Budgetary Institution) for the Far Eastern Federal District.
Background Information
The Amur GPP will become Russia’s largest natural gas processing plant and one of the largest plants globally. It will have a design capacity of 42 billion m3/yr of gas. The plant will also include the world’s largest facility for helium recovery with a capacity of up to 60 million m3/yr of gas. German company, Linde AG, will provide its process technologies for the Plant. The total area of the Amur GPP will amount to 800 ha.
The Amur GPP is an important link in the process chain of natural gas supplies to China via the Eastern route. Multi-component gas will be supplied to the Plant via the Power of Siberia gas pipeline from the Yakutsk and Irkutsk gas production centres, currently developed by Gazprom as a part of its Eastern gas program.
Gazprom pererabotka Blagoveshchensk, LLC (which is included in the Gazprom Group) is the Investor and Owner of the Amur Gas Processing Plant Project.
Construction is managed by NIPIGAZ, a leading Russian centre for engineering, procurement, logistics and construction management (included in the SIBUR Group).
The construction will reach its peak in 2019, when over 25,000 workers will be mobilized to the site.