The starting of the construction of the Amur gas processing plant (GPP) in the Svobodnensky District of the Amur Region started today at the presence of Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who commanded to launch the Amur GPP construction via a video call. This is one of the main steps of the Purchase and Sale Agreement for the Russian gas supply via the eastern route (Power of Siberia gas pipeline). The 30-year contract provides for Russian gas supplies to China in the amount of 38 billion cubic meters a year. Gas supplies under the contract will commence between May 2019 and May 2021.
The Amur GPP will be Russia’s major and one of the world’s major gas processing facilities with the nominal capacity of up to 49 billion cubic meters of gas a year. The gas processing plant will also include a helium production block with the annual output of up to 60 million cubic meters – the most extensive one around the globe. The plant will be built using Linde (Germany) technologies.
The Amur GPP is an essential part of the process chain of natural gas supply to China via the eastern route under the biggest-ever contract. Multi-component gas will be delivered to the GPP via the Power of Siberia gas pipeline from the Yakutia and Irkutsk gas production centers being built by Gazprom within the Eastern Gas Program. The GPP will strip from natural gas the following valuable components necessary for gas chemistry and other industries: ethane, propane, butane, pentane-hexane fraction and helium. The processed gas will be supplied to China.
A moment from the opening ceremony. (Gazprom)