Foundation works for installation of equipment of third process line of Amur Gas Processing Plant complete

May 13, 2019 00:00The next stage of construction work has been completed at the site of the Amur Gas Processing Plant (GPP) — preparation of foundations for large-capacity equipment of the third process line of the plant (cryogenic gas separation and fine helium purification units). More than 5 thousand piles and about 16 thousand cubic meters of concrete were used to produce the foundations.

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Large-capacity equipment for the third process line will be delivered by sea and river transport at the end of June. Installation will be carried out using a special Liebherr ring crane with a lifting capacity of 1,600 tons.

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PJSC Gazprom’s Amur GPP will become Russia’s largest natural gas processing plant and one of the largest plants of this kind in the world. Its design capacity will amount up to 42 billion cubic meters of gas per year. GPP will also include the world's largest production of helium — up to 60 million cubic meters per year. The Amur Gas Processing Plant is an important link in the process chain of natural gas supply to China via the Eastern route. The plant will receive the multi-component feed gas from Power of Siberia gas pipeline from the Yakutsk and Irkutsk gas production centres currently built by Gazprom with its Eastern Gas Program.

Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk LLC (member of 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).

Peak time for construction will be in 2019 to 2020 when over 25,000 workers will be mobilized to the site. Currently, the overall progress of the construction project of the Amur GPP is 33%. More than 16 thousand people and 2 thousand units of construction equipment are in operation at the site. More than 58 thousand piles have been driven, 135 thousand cubic meters of concrete were poured, 24 thousand tons of steel structures were installed. Work is underway on installation of equipment for production line 1 and 2.