First Construction Stage of Temporary Jetty Facility on Zeya Completed
The construction of the temporary jetty, designed for cargo turnover of up to 32 KTY, is planned to be completed in 2017. Specifically, activities relating to jetty land arrangement are forthcoming: earthworks, construction of access ways, areas for crane operation and an open warehouse, recultivation of lands, and bank stabilization. Besides, bottom-dredging operations are planned to be finished. It is required to create an operating jetty basin and safe manoeuvring of transport vessels.
During Amur GPP construction works, oversized cargo and heavy lifts will be delivered by means of tug/barge towing arrangements, which will follow the following cycle routes: from the Sovetskaya Gavan sea port, upstream the Amur and Zeya rivers, to the temporary jetty on the right bank of the Zeya river in the area of the Chernigovka settlement. The Amur GPP will be linked to the jetty by means of a motor access road 5.9 km long, the construction of which was completed in 2016.
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 Amur GPP is an important link in the process chain of Russian 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.
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