Gazprom lets contract for Amur gas plant

PJSC Gazprom, through its general contractor partner NIPIgazpererabotka (Nipigaz), has let a contract to China National Petroleum Corp. affiliate China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corp. (CPECC), to provide related engineering, procurement, and construction services for its now 42 billion-cu m/year grassroots Amur natural gas processing plant under construction near Svobodny in Russia’s far-east Amur region (OGJ Online, July 29, 2015).

CPECC will participate in design, manufacturing, and delivery of equipment and construction of compressor stations as well as gas drying, purification, and fractionation plants for the project, Gazprom said.

A value of the soon-to-be-signed EPC contract between CPEEC and Nipigaz was not disclosed.

Previously planned at a capacity of 49 billion cu m/year, the Amur gas processing plant—which also will include a 60 million-cu m/year helium plant and connect to PSJC Sibur Holding’s long-planned integrated ethylene, polyethylene, and polypropylene production complex under construction at Tobolsk in Western Siberia’s Tyumen region—is scheduled to begin operation of its first process train sometime in 2018 (OGJ Online, Jan. 21, 2016).

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