Demethanizer installed at the third process line of the Amur GPP
The methane column (demethanizer) has been successfully installed on the third process line of the Amur Gas Processing Plant (GPP). The equipment is designed to separate the methane fraction from the multicomponent gas which will be supplied via the Power of Siberia gas pipeline from the Chayandinsky and Kovyktinsky fields.
The weight of the demethanizer when assembled is 1,014 tons, its length is 87 m, its maximum diameter is 6 m. This is the largest equipment item of the third line of the Amur GPP. Installation involved a 1,600-ton ring crane, one of the four largest self-propelled cranes in the world.
In 2018, the same demethanizers were installed on the first and second process lines of the Amur GPP.
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Gazprom's Amur Gas Processing Plant will become one of the world's largest natural gas processing plants. Its design capacity will amount 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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