Project Profile
Location: Noyy Urengoy
Production capacity: 400,000 tons of polyethylene per year
Start year: 2014
The Novy Urengoy Gas and Chemical Complex (NUGCC) will be situated 30 kilometers from the city of Novy Urengoy in the Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous District of the Tyumen Region. Stroytransgaz has begun constructing a production complex for obtaining ethylene and polyethylene under high pressure. At production capacity of 400,000 tons of polyethylene per year, the Novy Urengoy gas-chemical complex will be one of the largest facilities of its kind in Russia. The complex will employ a single-technology chain production cycle with the following phases:
Recovering ethylene from feed gas
Obtaining ethylene through pyrolysis of ethane with subsequent separation of gas by fractions and removal of impurities from the ethylene, using equipment and technology from company Linde
Deriving polyethylene from ethylene through a high-pressure pipe reactor outfitted with three processing chains, using Salzgitter equipment and technology from Bazell
Along with its primary production, the gas-chemical complex will turn out wide fraction hydrocarbons and methane particles.
Novy Urengoy Gas Chemicals Complex Company (Gazprom) is customer for the project. VNIPIgazdobycha, a Saratov enterprise, is general designer of objects for the plant and the network extending beyond the territory of the gas-chemical complex site.
Stroytransgaz will perform building, assembly, and pre-commissioning work for the ethylene and polyethylene processing units, take part in inspection and reconstruction of previously installed equipment. Stroytransgaz-M is working on the first phase of offsite facilities for the Novy Urengoy gas-chemical complex as well.
The project is under way.
Operators:
Novy Urengoy Gas and Chemical Complex, LLC (a wholy-owned subsidiary of Gazprom): 100% interest
Contractors:
VIS Construction Group: Construction
Stroytransgaz: Construction and reconstruction
VNIPIgasdobycha (Russia): General design and engineering surveys
ОАО VNIPIneft (Russia): Heating, ventilation, water supply, and sewerage systems for
production facility.