Demethanizer installed at Amur GPP 4th process line
The methane extraction column (demethanizer) was installed at Amur GPP 4th process line. 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.
Demethanizer weight is 870 tons, the length is 88 m, the maximum diameter is 6 m. This is the largest equipment item of the fourth line of the Amur GPP. Cranes with a lifting capacity of 600 and 1600 tons were used for column installation.
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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 methane, 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.
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