160 thousand tons, or more than three quarters of all steel structures, have already been installed at the Amur Gas Processing Plant
160 thousand tons, or more than three quarters of all steel structures, have already been installed at the Amur Gas Processing Plant. These include process pipeline racks, frames for the gas separation equipment, flight ladders, and other elements of the plant production facilities. This amount of steel is enough to build two dozen Eiffel Towers.Installation of steel structures on the fifth and sixth process lines of the Amur Gas Processing Plant is underway. In total, construction of one of the world's largest gas processing plants will involve almost 200 thousand tons of steel structures to be installed.
Most of them are made in Russia at the sites in Belgorod, Yekaterinburg, Zelenodolsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Omsk, Orsk, St. Petersburg, Chelyabinsk and Shadrinsk. Some of the structures were supplied from the Republic of Belarus.
Background:
Amur Gas Processing Plant will become one of the world's largest natural gas processing plants with a design capacity of 42 billion cubic meters of gas per year. 2.4 million tons of ethane, 1.5 million tons of liquefied petroleum gases (LPG), 200 thousand tons of pentane and hexane fraction, 60 million cubic meters of helium, an extremely popular element for high-tech industries, will be produced here annually at its full capacity.
First two lines of the plant, as well as the first helium treatment, liquefaction and loading unit have been put into operation so far.
Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk LLC (member of Gazprom Group) acts as an investor, owner and operator of the Amur Gas Processing Plant. Construction is managed by JSC NIPIGAS.
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