Gazprom, Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk, and its general contractor NIPIgas have selected the Linde Group as the licenser for cryogenic gas separation technology at the Amur Gas Processing Plant, or Amur GPP, located in the Russian Far East.
Linde will engineer and supply units for ethane and natural gas liquids (NGL) extraction and nitrogen rejection, as well as for helium purification, liquefaction, and storage. The plant is part of Gazprom’s project for the supply of Russian gas to China via the Power of Siberia pipeline from Eastern Siberian gas fields. The facility will be constructed in five stages for full completion by 2024.
In late December 2015, Linde and NIPIgas entered into a binding engineering and supply contract for all five phases of construction for the Amur GPP. Phase one will consist of two ethane and NGL (propane, butane, pentane, hexane) extraction and nitrogen rejection units, as well as one helium production unit. Related engineering works are in progress. When completed, the Amur GPP will be one of the largest gas-processing plants in the world with a capacity of up to 49 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year.
Alexey Miller, the chairman of the management committee of Gazprom, and Dr. Wolfgang Buchele, the CEO of Linde AG, also recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement providing for their respective entities’ joint work in carrying out existing and future projects related to the natural gas value chain.
“We are delighted to significantly extend our successful business relationship with Gazprom,” said Buchele. “Not only will Amur GPP be one of the largest natural gas-processing plants in the world, Linde is looking forward to cooperating on projects and technologies that will support Gazprom in its efforts to better market natural gas and its by-products.”
The cooperation agreement covers process technologies, engineering, and services related to the treatment and liquefaction of natural gas, as well as the localization of equipment production in Russia. Furthermore, the agreement also addresses the subject of helium production, including the investment in, production, and operation of helium plants.
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