Construction on Amur Gas Processing Plant kicks off

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A launching ceremony for the second phase of the Amur Gas Processing Plant (AGPP) in Russia was held on April 24 in Beijing.

Earlier on April 11, China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corporation (CPECC) signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) project contract on the second phase of the AGPP with Russia’s NIPIGAS . in Moscow at the worth of US$2.52 billion.

A total of nearly 180 professionals from the two sides attended the project launching ceremony and held panal discussions afterwards on design, procurement, construction, contract, planning, expense control, quality check and safety, which lasted for five days.

The AGPP, once finished, will become Russia’s largest natural gas processing facility. It will have a capacity of 42 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year, with up to 38 billion cubic meters transported to China.

Russia, with its huge market and development potential, is an important country in the Belt and Road Initiative.

Li Xiaoning, vice general manager of the CPECC, said the AGPP is a key project to ensure supply of natural gas to China via the eastern route of the China-Russia gas pipeline. It is of great strategic importance for supply of clean energy to China. The CPECC will try its best to coordinate its resources to ensure implementation of the project in a timely and efficient way.

Denis Kulkov, project manager of NIPIGAS, said the project is also important to boosting the local economy and job market. He hopes all relevant parties can work together to successfully complete the challenging project.

The second phase of the AGPP mainly includes six sets of natural gas processing installments.

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