Power equipment testing has started at Amur GPP Start-up Complex 1
Power equipment testing has started at Start-up Complex 1 of Amur gas processing plant (GPP) Start-up Complex 1 includes two of six process gas separation lines, as well as a fine purification, liquefaction and filling of liquid helium.
At present power engineers inspect installation quality, test separate units and assemblies, try out control, security and alarm circuits. Arrangements are being done to energize the facility with the permanent power supply. The work is carried out prior to commissioning of the main process equipment has been started.
Power to Amur GPP will be supplied from Svobodnenskaya TPP, which is the first gas thermal power plant in the region, that is now being built near the plant. There is also a backup supply from the federal main electricity supply networks. The enterprise power supply scheme does not envisage the use of the power supply networks of Svobodny and Svobodnensky district.
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Amur GPP of PJSC Gazprom 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.
Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk LLC (member of Gazprom Group) is the Investor and Owner of the Amur Gas Processing Plant project. Construction is managed by NIPIGAS JSC, a leading Russian centre for engineering, procurement, logistics and construction management (part of SIBUR Group).
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