The Unique Yamal LNG Megaproject is Five Years Old Anniversary
On November 29, 2017, the Yamal LNG project received state permission to put into operation the main technological facilities of the first stage of the liquefied natural gas plant, including the first production line, 58 gas wells and large-scale infrastructure.
The Yamal LNG megaproject, which provides for the construction of the port of Sabetta and a plant for the production of liquefied natural gas, is the largest Arctic infrastructure project in the world in terms of its scale.
The construction of facilities implemented in the Arctic latitudes was carried out with the active participation of foreign companies from 15 countries with the active involvement of Russian manufacturers and suppliers – almost 700 enterprises from 60 regions of Russia.
A significant part of the work was carried out by Trust Koksokhimmontazh, for which this project has become a unique construction project in recent years and one of the largest beyond the Arctic Circle. The significance of this project, actively supported by the Russian government, is compared by many with the industrial development of Western Siberia.
General Director of KHM Sergey Fufaev notes that the construction of Yamal LNG facilities required a serious mobilization of 3,000 specialists and more than 130 pieces of equipment, including unique cranes with a lifting capacity of 220 and 150 tons. The company’s specialists demonstrated the highest quality of work in the conditions of the Arctic and the difficulties in the delivery of building materials and the short construction time.
Trust Koksokhimmontazh built entrance facilities in Yamal with the installation of 9896 tons of metal structures; laid 88602 meters of pipelines; built a tank farm with a capacity of 150,000 cubic meters of gas. In addition, the construction teams of KXM carried out the installation of intershop racks for laying technological pipelines, racks of the boil-off gas compressor zone; construction of auxiliary facilities, including fire-fighting water reservoirs, reservoirs for treatment facilities, a water treatment complex, as well as a gas supply system for pilot facilities.
In 2021, Yamal LNG shipped already 50 million tons of LNG to the Arc7 ice-class tanker Nikolai Zubov.
