Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk LLC and Kazan National Research Technological University sign agreement on training personnel for Amur Gas Processing Plant

Yuri Lebedev, General Director of Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk LLC, and Sergey Yushko, Rector of the Kazan National Research Technological University (KNRTU), signed an agreement on providing the Amur Gas Processing Plant (GPP) with human resources today in Moscow within the framework of the 6th exhibition VUZPROMEXPO-2019. The agreement is signed for a period of six years and provides for training of the students of KNRTU in the disciplines that are in demand at the Amur GPP.

«Our professionals will participate in the development of the educational programs, in the state final certification of students. We are ready to accept students for practical trainin and employ the best graduates at the Amur GPP,» explained Yuri Lebedev, General Director of Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk.

In addition, the employees of the Amur Gas Processing Plant are planning to take part in the research and practical conferences organized by KNRTU.

«Cooperation with the leading enterprises of the industry, participation in educational and research projects is an area of mutually beneficial interests. I am sure that the Amur Gas Processing Plant, as one of the largest gas processing plants in the world, will become an employer for our best graduates,» said Sergey Yushko, Rector of KNRTU.

Since the beginning of 2019, Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk has been recruiting personnel for the main production site of the Amur Gas Processing Plant to participate in the commissioning. After the plant reaches its design capacity, about 2,500 employees will work at the production site.

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Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk LLC (part of the Gazprom Group) is the investor, owner and operator of the Amur GPP construction project. Amur GPP will become one of the world's largest natural gas processing plants. Its design capacity amount to 42 billion cubic meters of gas per year. The plant will consist of six production lines, with the first two planned to be commissioned in 2021. In addition to the purified methane fraction, the GPP commercial products will include ethane, propane, butane, pentane and hexane fraction, and helium.