Gazprom CEO says Amur gas refinery 70% completed

MOSCOW, Jan 19 (PRIME) -- The Amur gas refinery of Russian gas giant Gazprom is 70% ready, and its first start-up facility and two technological lines will be launched in 2021, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller told Vladimir Putin at a meeting on Tuesday.

“As to the Amur gas refinery, its construction completion is standing at 70%. In 2021, we will commission the first launching unit and two technological lines. Products made at the Amur gas refinery will be supplied to the Amur gas chemical plant,” he said.

The launch of the two debut production lines at the Amur gas refinery was scheduled for April 2021 and of the third line for December 2021. All the six planned lines now will be commissioned by December 2024, and the plant’s production capacity will amount to 38 billion cubic meters of methane, 2 million tonnes of ethane, 1.7 million tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas, and 60 million cubic meters of helium.

Miller also said that Gazprom’s gas extraction facilities top the current production volume of around 452 billion cubic meters of gas by almost 100 billion cubic meters annually.

The company plans to build new gas processing and gas chemical plants both in Russia’s western and eastern parts to export the products both to the European and Asian customers, he added.

Miller said that China’s demand for gas is higher that the supply volume envisaged by a 30-year contract with Gazprom, and that a feasibility study for the Mongolian part of the Sila Sibiri-2 gas pipeline that can deliver additional gas to China will be ready in January–March.

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