Head of Irkutsk Oil Company: Helium plant launched in pilot application mode
The Irkutsk Oil Company (INC) has launched a helium plant at the Yarakta oil and gas condensate field (Irkutsk region) in the trial mode. The head of the company, Yakov Ginzburg, told reporters about this.
“Today, the plant is operating in the pilot application mode, gradually being brought to the technological mode with a capacity of 10 million liters per year.
The technology is unique and has no analogues in the world. The new INK plant has become the second and largest in Russia. In total, there are a dozen such enterprises in the world,” said Yakov Ginzburg, head of the INC.
Helium is widely used in various industries: nuclear power, metallurgy, food industry, and medicine.
The launch of the helium plant was carried out as part of the implementation of the second stage of the gas project to create a gas chemical cluster. He closed the entire technological chain of processing natural and associated gas with a deep extraction of valuable components from them.
In 2022, the company launched five production facilities of the II stage of the gas project: 2 plants for the preparation and processing of natural and associated gases, two gas fractionation lines of the Ust-Kut gas processing plant (stage 1), expansion of the complex for receiving, storing and shipping liquefied hydrocarbon gases ).
Since 2011, the company has been implementing a project to create a gas chemical cluster in the Irkutsk region with a hub in the city of Ust-Kut.
