Gas separation columns for fourth line of Amur GPP are sent by sea from the Republic of Korea to Amur Region
A marine vessel with gas separation columns for fourth process line of Amur Gas Processing Plant (GPP) left the South Korean port of Masan. This is the main large-sized process equipment that allows to separate natural multicomponent gas into methane, nitrogen and natural gas liquids. Demethanizer column weight is 859 tons, the length is almost 88 meters. Nitrogen rejection unit with a length of more than 58 meters weighs 883 tons. The shipment was carried out in accordance with the schedule.
The ship went from the Republic of Korea to the port of De-Kastri in Khabarovsk region. There, each unit will be reloaded on a separate river barge and delivered by towing boats along Amur and Zeya rivers to the berth of Amur GPP in Svobodny.
As a part of navigation this is the second ship with a large-sized cargo intended for Amur Gas Processing Plant. In total, during the summer navigation of 2020, it is planned to deliver 43 units of equipment with a total weight of about 8 thousand tons to construction site of Amur GPP. 13 barge-towing arrangements will be used to transport cargo along the Russian rivers.
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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.
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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