Rosatom participates in the modernization of LNG production

14.10.2019       

State Corporation Rosatom is responsible for the construction of the first in Russia and the third in the world test bench of technologies and equipment for the production of medium and large-tonnage liquefied natural gas (LNG). The government will allocate 1.35 billion rubles from the budget for its construction. The stand will allow testing the entire range of pumps and fittings required for the implementation of domestic LNG projects. The construction and operation of the stand will be carried out by the enterprise of Rosatom — JSC "NIIEFA". The design must be completed no later than five months from the date of the agreement between Rosatom and Niiefa JSC, and the construction must be completed no later than 11 months from the date of approval of the design documentation. With the appearance of a facility for large-tonnage LNG in Russia, the creation of the necessary test base for the implementation of LNG projects based on domestic technologies and equipment will be completed.

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Last September 2009, the state corporation Rosatom announced its readiness to take part in the creation in the Nizhny Novgorod region of a bench-test base for import-substituting equipment that will be used for the production of liquefied natural gas in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation. Previously, on the territory of JSC В«NIIEFAВ» a permanent liquid nitrogen test rig was built to test cryogenic pumps for medium-sized LNG. It tested the first LNG pumps manufactured by OKBM Afrikantov, which is part of the engineering division of Rosatom.
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