04/10/2018

Press release: Gazprom and Linde look into expanding cooperation

A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Aldo Belloni, Chief Executive Officer of Linde, took place today at the 8th St. Petersburg International Gas Forum.

The parties noted the strategic nature of their cooperation, discussing, among other things, the Amur Gas Processing Plant (GPP) construction project. Linde is the supplier of equipment for cryogenic recovery of substances from gas. The construction project is going according to schedule. The 2018 navigation plan is completed, with all of Linde’s heavy and large equipment delivered to the construction site by sea and river transport. The delivered equipment is nearly assembled.

Special attention was paid to the successes of Russian-German technological collaboration. In September, the first spiral heat exchanger was delivered to the Amur GPP. The equipment was produced in Russia for the first time as part of localization efforts by Linde Power Machines, a joint venture of Power Machines and Linde, with support from Gazprom.

Linde’s technologies and equipment are also used in the construction project for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) production, storage and shipment complex near the Portovaya compressor station.

In the course of the meeting, the parties reviewed the prospects of expanding cooperation in the field of gas processing and liquefaction, including the use of gas as a vehicle fuel.

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