Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev visits the construction site of the Amur Gas Processing Plant
Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation — Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev visited the construction site of the Amur Gas Processing Plant (GPP) as part of his business trip to the region. Yuri Lebedev, General Director of Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk LLC, informed the Plenipotentiary Representative about the construction.«Installation of the licensed equipment is underway on the first and second process lines: they will be put into operation in 2021. Preparation of the foundations for heavy-lift equipment of third production line is complete; installation of the unit for cryogenic separation of gas and helium will commence in June,» said Yuri Lebedev.
Large-sized equipment is also delivered, full-scale construction of utilities, infrastructure and offsites has been launched, and commissioning at the power supply facilities is about to begin. Professionals who will be part of the key operational personnel of the Amur GPP are being hired.
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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.
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