Second spiral heat exchanger installed at the Amur Gas Processing Plant
A spiral heat exchanger for the third and fourth process lines was installed at the Amur Gas Processing Plant (GPP). This is the second heat exchanger manufactured in Saint-Petersburg specially for the Amur Gas Processing Plant.
The spiral heat exchanger is an important link in the process chain of production of liquid helium which will be produced at the Amur Gas Processing Plant. It is designed for preheating and subsequent cooling of the nitrogen and helium mixture, as a result of which the helium is purified from impurities.
Production of this most modern and high-tech spiral equipment for oil and gas facilities was first localized in Russia thanks to the cooperation of PJSC Gazprom, the German company Linde and Russian machine builders.
In total, the project provides for installation of three heat exchangers — one for each two production lines. In September last year, a heat exchanger was installed for the first and second process lines.
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Amur Gas Processing Plant will become one of the world's largest natural gas processing plants. 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.
Amur GPP is an important link in the process chain of natural gas supplies to China in 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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