Navigation open in 2019: the first large-sized equipment of the season was delivered to the jetty of the Amur GPP

The first vessel with large-sized equipment in 2019 arrived on the Zeya river to the temporary jetty of the Amur Gas Processing Plant. The vessel delivered six filter separators weighing more than 46 tons each to the plant. The equipment is designed for drying of commercial gas before injection into the main gas pipeline and further transportation to the consumer.


During the summer navigation this year, more than 100 units of equipment with a total volume of about 70 thousand freight tons will be delivered to the site of the Amur GPP. This includes some key equipment for the third process line: column for demethanization of natural gas and for nitrogen rejection.

Cranes with a lifting capacity of 1,350 and 750 tons were installed at the temporary jetty of the Amur GPP for loading and unloading operations. Lifting truck cranes and self-propelled modular conveyors have been mobilized to deliver oversize and heavy-lift equipment to the construction site.

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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.

19 units of the fleet have been built for river transportation of oversize and heavy-lift equipment in shallow water for the Amur GPP project: special shallow-draft tugs (4 tugs for the Amur river and 4 tugs for the Zeya river), 7 barges, 4 pontoon systems. In 2018 navigation, the temporary jetty of the Amur GPP received 14 barge and tug trains which delivered 58 pieces of equipment with a total weight of over 10 thousand tons.