Gas separation columns for the third process line delivered to the jetty of the Amur Gas Processing Plant
The largest equipment for the third line of the plant successfully arrived by water at the temporary jetty of the Amur Gas Processing Plant (GPP) on the Zeya River. Delivery of the methane column (demethanizer) and the nitrogen rejection column are the largest logistics operations during the summer navigation period of 2019.
The weight of the demethanizer is 830 tons, its length is 87 m, its diameter is 7.4 m. The nitrogen rejection column weighs 870 tons, its length is 58 m and its diameter is 7.9 m. From the jetty, the equipment was transported to the construction site on a self-propelled modular truck.
Nitrogen rejection column.
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. 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.
Nitrogen rejection column.
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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.