State expert review approves construction of residential area for Amur GPP employees
The new district designed for 5,000 residents will be built in the north of Svobodny where the military camp used to be. Available residential buildings and residential care facility in the area will become part of the district and connected to the new utility lines.
Construction area will occupy 92.5 ha. 42 five-storey houses, 36 row houses, daycare facility, schools, clinics, entertainment center, general sports center, shops and other facilities will be built here. Standalone utility infrastructure will include electric power, heat, water supply and sewage systems, treatment systems as well as boiler house.
Levelling of the construction site will commence in H2 2017. However, construction and cargo-handling vehicles will only enter the site from the side of the roundabout motor road. Infrastructure in the residential area will have been built by late 2019. Construction of the residential houses will be completed by 2022 according to the schedule.
Development of the residential area will impart momentum to development of the social and municipal infrastructure and create the prerequisites for development of Svobodnensky district economy.
Background Information
Amur GPP will become Russia’s largest natural gas processing plant and one of the largest plants globally. Its annual design capacity will amount to
42 BCMPA of gas. Amur GPP will also include the world’s largest facility for helium recovery with the capacity of up to 60 MCMPA of gas.
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 PJSC Gazprom as a part of its Eastern gas program.
Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk LLC (member of PJSC Gazprom Group) is the Investor and Owner of Amur Gas Processing Plant Project.
Construction is managed by NIPIGAS, a leading Russian centre for engineering, procurement, logistics and construction management (member of SIBUR Group).