Mass vaccination against COVID-19 begins at the construction site of the Amur Gas Processing Plant
Mass vaccination of the construction and operational personnel of the Amur Gas Processing Plant (GPP) has commenced. In total, 20 thousand doses of Sputnik V vaccine will be used during the vaccination campaign. Four thousand doses have already been received, with 12 thousand doses more to be delivered in the near future. At the initial stage, an average of 100 people are vaccinated daily.
«All categories of personnel who do not have contraindications are vaccinated. A vaccination schedule has been developed for the contractors. At the moment, about a thousand people have been vaccinated,» says Aleksandr Grebenyuk, Director of Medical Safety at NIPIGAS (General Contractor for construction of the Amur Gas Processing Plant).
«Large-scale vaccination is aimed at creating collective immunity. It is important not to lose the momentum of the start-up operations at Amur GPP. The health of the workforce is the most important resource for this task,» says Yuri Lebedev, General Director of Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk LLC.
Since the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, an anti-epidemic mode has been functioning at the Amur GPP. A network of inter-regional observatories is organized for the visiting staff, and thermometry stations are in operation. An infectious disease hospital has been built and equipped with modern equipment for treatment and prevention of diseases. Mass inspection of the personnel and disinfection of public areas are carried out, and all recommendations of Rospotrebnadzor are implemented.
Background
Amur Gas Processing Plant 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, NGL, 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.
In 2020, a NIPIGAS infectious disease hospital was built next to the Amur GPP: it is equipped with the necessary modern equipment for diagnostics and treatment of COVID-19.
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