The construction of the Amur gas processing plant started in the Svobodnensky District of the Amur Region.
The Amur GPP will have the nominal capacity of up to 49 billion cubic meters of gas a year, Russian gas giant Gazprom informed in a statement.
The gas processing plant will also include a helium production block with the annual output of up to 60 million cubic meters. It will be built using Linde (Germany) technologies.
According to Gazprom, the Amur GPP is a part of the process chain of natural gas supply to China via the eastern route. Multi-component gas will be delivered to the GPP via the Power of Siberia gas pipeline from the Yakutia and Irkutsk gas production centers being built by Gazprom within the Eastern Gas Program.
The GPP will strip ethane, propane, butane, pentane-hexane fraction and helium from natural gas supply the processed gas to China.
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