2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-07 20:55
Power of Siberia is a new gas pipeline, the main purpose of which is the supply of domestic blue fuel to the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. The design capacity of this pipeline is 38 billion cubic meters per year. One of the most important facilities of this gas pipeline is the Amur GPP. After the construction is completed, this enterprise will become the largest blue fuel processing plant in Russia. It will supply the market with helium, propane, butane and other similar products.
Why do we need a new GPP?
"Power of Siberia" - the largest gas pipeline of our time - after the completion of construction will provide Russia with the diversification of exports of raw materials. In addition, this important facility, according to available forecasts, will have a very serious impact on the development of the economy of Eastern Siberia and will allow our country to take a leading position in the world in helium production. Well, and, of course, the new gas pipeline will be a good reason to strengthen friendly relations between Russia and the countries of the Asia-Pacific region.
The project of the Amur gas processing plant was developed in such a way that in the end this enterprise would become the largest helium production complex in the Russian Federation and the world. Initially, ordinary multicomponent gas will be supplied here through the Power of Siberia pipeline. Further, already at the gas processing plant itself, butane, propane, pentane-hexane fraction, ethane and, of course, helium will be separated from it. According to the plans of the developers of the gas pipeline project, these components are supposed to be sold primarily to China. By the way, this country is Russia's partner in the construction of the Power of Siberia highway. The assembly of the receiving line of the gas pipeline in China has already begun.
Helium as the main specialization of the plant
Thus, the main product to be produced at the Amur GPP will be helium. The main feature of this gas is the absolute chemical inertness. Therefore, in industry, helium is often used to create non-aggressive neutral atmospheres. Such media may be necessary, for example, when performing various kinds of welding work, metallurgical melts, etc. Also, this gas is often used as an indicator of leaks in nuclear reactors and in the manufacture of rocket technology.
Another promising application for helium is electronics. For example, it is assumed that mass production of new generation hard drives filled with this gas will soon begin. Such hard drives will have a capacity twice as large as those existing onpresent day. Helium is used, among other things, in the latest modern medical and research equipment.
The cost of this gas on the world market is about 85 dollars per 1 cubic foot. In fact, helium reserves in the world are limited. The largest deposits of this gas today are in the United States. However, they, unfortunately, are already almost completely developed. That is why, apparently, the Russian government is betting on Siberian helium and the possibility of its production at the Amur GPP.
Other processed products
In addition to helium, the future gas processing plant is supposed to receive, of course, other gases. Both methane, and propane, and butane, allocated at the enterprise, will also be supplied mainly to China in the future. Part of the ethane gas is supposed to be used at SIBUR, a large chemical complex under construction near the Amur GPP. This enterprise will produce high-quality modern polyethylene from ethane obtained from the GPP.
Project features
The construction site of this GPP, as can be judged by its name, is the Amur Region of Russia. The construction of the production facilities of this new gas processing plant began in 2015 near the city of Svobodny, near the bed of the Zeya River.
The largest gas company in Russia, Gazprom, is investing in the construction of the Amur GPP. It is assumed that the construction of this important large-scale facility for the country will be completed in2019
NIPIGAZ is the general contractor for the construction of the Amur GPP. Also, the Chinese enterprise SRESS and the large German corporation Linde Group are taking part in the construction of this plant. It is these three companies that carry out the main work on the construction site.
In total, about 29 contractors and 61 subcontractors, as well as more than 250 suppliers, were involved in the construction of the gas processing plant in the Amur Region at the end of 2017. Enterprises of various specializations from 11 regions of the Russian Federation, as well as some foreign companies, are involved in the implementation of this project.
Equipment for the future Amur gas processing plant will be purchased in Germany. Presumably, Linde AG will supply it. In any case, this company received the right to be the licensor of the enterprise back in October 2015.
Power
According to the project, after the construction is completed, the plant will operate as many as 6 production lines. The total area of the Amur GPP will be 800 hectares. It is also assumed that the plant will produce annually:
- helium - 60 million cubic meters;
- propane - 1 million tons;
- ethane - 2.5 million tons;
- butane - 500 thousand tons;
- pentane-hexane fraction - 200 thousand tons.
The total design capacity of the enterprise after launch will be 42 billion m3 of natural gas per year. Which, of course, is very, very much.
Construction progress
By NovemberIn 2017, roads have already been laid on the site of the future Amur GPP, along which building materials will be transported. The contractor tried to make them as reliable as possible. Most of the roads for the future GPP are filled with three layers of asph alt. It will not be difficult for such a coating to withstand the load of even the heaviest equipment.
The construction of the foundation of the plant itself was solemnly launched in August 2017. Putin himself personally gave the command for the first pouring of concrete into the formwork. The president also supervised the ceremony of starting the construction of the enterprise in 2015. However, then he did it via video link.
In addition to roads, communications are currently being assembled at the site of the plant's construction, river and railway infrastructure is being organized. For example, on Zeya, among other things, a modern reliable pier was built. Also, not far from the future enterprise, preparatory work is underway for the construction of a residential microdistrict.
Future Staff
It is assumed that about 3,000 people will work at the Amur GPP after its commissioning. Of course, the plant will need highly qualified specialists of various professions in the future. And the training of personnel for this modern enterprise has already begun today. Especially for this purpose, Gazprom entered into an agreement with the Ministry of Education and Science. Specialists are trained for the new plant in several educational institutions, including higher ones.
Reviews of construction workers
SSince the beginning of the implementation of this large-scale project, more than 770 residents of cities and villages of the Amur region are already involved in it. Judging by the feedback from the workers, the conditions at the construction site are quite tolerable for them. In any case, the people involved in the project are paid a decent salary.
Specialists work at the construction of the Amur GPP, as well as at most other similar facilities, mainly on a rotational basis. It's no secret that contractors with this method of organizing work often deceive their employees. For example, unscrupulous companies may not pay or delay wages to people, not issue work clothes or offer poor food in the canteen. At the construction of the Amur GPP, according to the governor of the region A. Kozlov, there is no such disorder. The leadership of the region constantly monitors that subcontractors and contractors pay wages to workers at this facility on time and that good working conditions are created for the staff.
It is expected that at the peak of the construction of the plant, more than 20 thousand specialists from different regions of Russia and other countries will be involved here.
At the enterprise itself, after its construction is completed, of course, mainly residents of the Amur Region will work. But the plant will still have to invite, among other things, highly qualified foreign specialists. The fact is that the enterprise will, among other things, use very sophisticated modern imported equipment. According to the rules, only specialists from that category can often work on such lines.the state from which they were delivered (at least at first).
Hot line
Of course, this enterprise will bring huge benefits to the economy of the Amur Region after the construction is completed. However, during the actual construction of such a large-scale and crowded facility, of course, it can also cause some discomfort to the local population. In particular, this applies to residents of the city of Svobodny, located near the GPP, in the Amur Region and some neighboring villages in the Svobodnensky District. In order to minimize this discomfort, the construction management organized, among other things, a hotline. Thanks to this, local residents can now report any problems they have in connection with the construction of the plant.
Environmental situation
Of course, the operation of the new plant will have a serious impact on the region's environment as well. What exactly this impact will be, environmentalists began to find out back in 2015. In their opinion, its work will not cause any global harm to the environment of the Amur Region and the territories adjacent directly to the enterprise.
Monitoring for compliance of the Amur GPP under construction by Gazprom with environmental standards was also carried out in the spring of 2016. At that time, experts did not find any particularly serious violations on the territory of the future plant. According to the reports, no harmful substances were found in the air in the vicinity of the construction site and on it itself. Ecologists also checked the land next to the future plant. landfill,no traces of oil spills, etc. were found here either.
Instead of a conclusion
Completion of the construction of the gas processing plant near Svobodny and putting it into operation, of course, will have a positive impact on the economy not only of the Amur Region, but of the entire country as a whole. Russia will be able to earn a lot of money by selling gas to Asia. Residents of the districts of the Amur Region adjacent to the enterprise will receive additional jobs and housing in the new microdistrict. So the Amur Gas Processing Plant is indeed a very important and significant enterprise. And therefore, let's hope that its construction will not be delayed and will be put into operation as scheduled.
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