Industrial Construction

July 2017 heralded a contract award for the construction works and installation of cryogenic gas separation units at the Amur Gas Processing Plant in Svobodny. The new gas processing plant is to become one of the largest gas processing facilities in the world. The plant will supply gas to China, while the remaining product will be shipped to the USA. 

What is Amur Gas Processing Plant?

 • it is the largest (42 billion cubic meters of natural gas per annum) gas processing plant in Russia lying next to the town of Svobodny in the Amur region;

 • it is one of the largest gas processing facilities in the world;

 • it is a key element in the foreseen process of natural gas supply to China using the Power of Siberia gas line;

• it is a plant with astonishing process capacities (ethane production – at least 2.5 million tons per annum, propane production – about 1 million tons per annum, butane production – about 5000 thousand tons per annum, production of pentane-hexane fraction – about 200 t thousand tons per annum). 

The size of the main construction site of the plant exceeds 600 ha which is approximately equivalent to 800 football pitches. 7 lines (trains) will be constructed stage by stage, each with a capacity of 7 billion cubic meters of natural gas per annum. The first stage will see two trains put into service. After that, each year the production capacity will be expanded by one line. Each of them serves as an independent gas processing unit.

 VELESSTROY works as a construction subcontractor and conducts the whole scope of construction, installation and commissioning activities, including piling, concrete, erection and electrical works.