Energy company in Uzbekistan with customers in Europe aspires to improve Central Asian nation’s output
Sanoat Energetika Guruhi (SEG), an independent oil and gas company in the former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan with customers in Germany, Poland and the UK, reported an 8 percent increase in production in the first nine months of 2022 as it aspires to boost output while meeting all global oil field standards.
Russian pipeline gas and LNG competitor Gazprom points to plunge in inventories in Western Europe
Gazprom, the Russian pipeline natural gas supplier in competition to LNG, said it produced slightly more gas in January 2022 than last year, though supplies to Western Europe dropped more than 40 percent during the month compared with January 2021.
By-product of Russian natural gas pipeline to China will be production of LNG-powered trucks
Gazprom plans to order Russian-manufactured LNG-powered trucks to transport liquid helium from the Amur Gas Processing Plant, the largest such plant in Russia and second-biggest in the world.
Prior to being fed into “Power of Siberia” natural gas pipeline to China gas undergoes treatment at Amur, producing valuable petrochemicals and gases.
The construction site of the Amur GPP is located near the town of Svobodny in the Amur Region of the Russian Far East.
Alexey Miller, Chairman of Gazprom, and Sergey Chemezov, Director General of the state-owned Rostec Corp. signed an agreement for the first batch of LNG-powered trucks to be produced.
The vehicles will be made by the Kamaz Group, a subsidiary of Rostec.
“The first 18 LNG-powered trucks that will transport helium will have special thermally-insulated containers and are expected to be delivered in 2021,” said Gazprom.
The Amur Gas GPP has a design capacity of 42 billion cubic metres of gas per year and when fully completed will include the world's largest helium production facilities.
The completed plant will comprise six production lines, with the first two lines slated for commissioning in 2021.
The remaining lines will be consecutively put into operation before the end of 2024. The Amur plant is expected to reach its design capacity by 2025.
In addition to sales of gas and helium, the plant will produce ethane, propane, butane and pentane-hexane fraction.
Gazprom and Chinese major, China National Petroleum Corp., have signed a 30-year Sales and Purchase Agreement for Russian gas to be supplied via the northern pipeline route, which was partially started up in December 2019 to send limited volumes.
