Assembly of modular buildings for Amur GPP construction camp commences
Four out of six check points have been erected. The interior of these buildings is being furbished now. Erection of the canteen building is complete. A hotel for engineering personnel for 30 persons and the administrative and amenities building with offices for 70 work stations are being erected.
TSF area now has a hard-surface area covered with 2,800 reinforced concrete slabs. It will be used for storage of equipment. The camp site is fenced. Perimeter fencing of the temporary site facilities is 80% complete.
TSF area will have 35 modular buildings of the dormitories, canteens, warehouses, first aid room, sauna, laundry and sports rooms, 10 warehouse buildings and various infrastructure facilities like water treatment facilities, onsite water supply and removal systems, transformer substations, boiler room, fire depot.
305 persons and 56 items of equipment are now engaged onsite. Total work progress is 69%. The works are being performed 24/7. For now, 7.1 thousand steel piles, 2.9 thousand reinforced concrete piles have been sunk, 389 wells and over 26 thousand meters of pipelines have been installed, 426.6 thousand square meters of trenches have been worked for the temporary site facilities.
100% of supplies for Amur GPP come from Russian companies. 23 Russian companies are participating in supplies of materials and equipment for construction of temporary site facilities. They come from 11 different regions of the Russian Federation: Krasnoyarsk and Perm Krai, Sverdlovsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Samara, Irkutsk, Orel and Amur Oblast, Chuvash Republic and Bashkortostan. 28 items of equipment and 113 thousand items of materials have been delivered to the site for now.
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.
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