SIBUR_The celebrations to mark the start of construction of Gazprom Amur Gas Processing Plant (GPP)_Becoming the largest gas processing plant in Russia and one of the largest gas processing facilities in the world_by chemwinfo

14 October 2015

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ABOUT SIBUR

Dmitry Konov

Executive Director

Chairman of the Management Board

SIBUR 

DETAILS

Alexey Miller,

Chairman of Gazprom's Management Committee,

and

Dmitry Konov,

SIBUR's CEO,

attended the celebrations

to mark the start of construction of

Gazprom's Amur Gas Processing Plant (GPP).

The event took place in Svobodnensly District of the Amur Region.

The groundbreaking was commanded by

President Vladimir Putin

via a video conference from the Vostochny spaceport.

Amur GPP will become

the largest gas processing plant in Russia and

one of the largest gas processing facilities in the world.

The plant's annual design capacity will be up to 49 bcm,

and the GPP will also include

the world's largest helium production facility,

with an annual capacity of up to 60 mcm.

Amur GPP will produce multi-component gas mixtures

using natural gas from fields in Yakutia and the Irkutsk Region

(the gas production centres developed by

 Gazprom under the Eastern Gas Programme)

through the Power of Siberia pipeline.

The products will include

methane, ethane, propane, butane,

pentane-hexane fraction and helium.

Processes at Gazprom's Amur GPP will be linked to

the future deep hydrocarbon conversion facility

currently under consideration at SIBUR.

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