Two barges with large-sized equipment for process line 5 of the plant have arrived at the temporary jetty of the Amur Gas Processing Plant at once
Two barges with large-sized equipment for process line 5 of the plant have arrived at the temporary jetty of the Amur Gas Processing Plant at once. Total weight of 26 cargo units is more than 1,200 tons. These include the vessels and parts of the cold box for raw gas for the gas separation unit.
Handling works are performed at the jetty with use of two cranes with 1,350 t capacity. Large-sized and massive parts of the cold box will be delivered to the construction site of the plant using the self-propelled modular trucks. In order to ensure proper safety, transportation will be carried out mainly at night at a pedestrian speed.
The cold box is designed to cool the natural gas entering the plant before being fed to the gas separation columns and is an important element of the cryogenic gas separation complex for process line 5. Earlier, four similar cold boxes for raw gas were installed on the first four process lines of the Amur Gas Processing Plant.
In total, during the summer navigation of 2021, it is planned to deliver 51 units of equipment with a total weight of around 5.6 thousand tons to the construction site of Amur GPP.
Background
Amur GPP 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.
On June 9, 2021, the first train of the plant was put into operation.
Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk LLC (member of Gazprom Group) is the investor, the owner and the operator of Amur GPP. Construction is managed by JSC NIPIGAS.