The second group of experienced specialists from Gazprom's subsidiaries arrived at the AGPP to participate in first Start-up Complex commissioning

The second group of experienced specialists from Gazprom's subsidiaries arrived at the Amur Gas Processing Plant to participate in first Start-up Complex commissioning. More than thirty highly qualified employees were assigned to Svobodny by Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat and the Astrakhan Gas Processing Plant of Gazprom Pererabotka LLC.

Among the arrivals: process unit operators, pumping and compressor unit operators, operators of various gas processing fields, foremen and engineers, including in the field of energy and electronics, commissioning and testing, automated control systems and instrumentation. After the induction is over, arrived specialists will work in electric workshops, Automation and Instrumentation rooms, as well as at Ethane and NGL Units and Gas Treatment & Dehydration Units.

«We are grateful to all the Managers of Gazprom enterprises who sent the best specialists to participate in commissioning works at the Amur Gas Processing Plant,» Danis Fayruzov, Chief Engineer and First Deputy General Director of Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk, welcomed the arrivals. — We all have to work together with a high complexity factor and in a short time, a real professional test for the whole team."
Danis Fayruzov, Chief Engineer and First Deputy General Director of Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk.

Danis Fayruzov, Chief Engineer and First Deputy General Director of Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk.


The first start-up complex (the first two production lines, as well as the helium purification and liquefaction unit) is scheduled to start operating in Q2 2021. Earlier, in the beginning of February, the first group of experienced specialists from Gazprom's subsidiaries from leading industry enterprises from different regions of Russia arrived at the Amur Gas Processing Plant.

Background

The Amur Gas Processing Plant of PJSC Gazprom will become one of the world's largest natural gas processing sites with a capacity of 42 billion cubic meters of gas per year. Commercial products, in addition to purified methane, 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.