Amur GPP ecologists release 15,000 carp fingerlings into Zeya River
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Ecologists of the Amur Gas Processing Plant (GPP) held an event to replenish the aquatic bioresources within the area affected by the construction project. Jointly with employees of the Federal Agency for Fishery (Rosrybolovstvo), they released over 15,000 common carp fingerlings, each weighing 5 grams, into the Zeya River. It will take nearly five years for the fingerlings to reach commercial size. The juveniles were brought from the Anyuysk fish hatchery in the Khabarovsk Territory, an affiliate of the Amur branch of the state-run Main Administration for Fisheries and Conservation of Aquatic Biological Resources (Glavrybvod).
15,000 carp fingerlings released into Zeya River by Amur GPP ecologists
The releases of fingerlings into the water bodies of the Amur Region have been carried out since 2016. Over the course of six years, more than 60,000 juvenile carps have been released into the Zeya, Bolshaya Pyora and Rakusha rivers as part of the environmental protection program being pursued by Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk (investor, customer and operator of the Amur GPP) and NIPIGAZ (general contractor in the GPP construction project).
Juvenile fish brought from Anyuysk fish hatchery in Khabarovsk Territory, affiliate of Amur branch of state-run Main Administration for Fisheries and Conservation of Aquatic Biological Resources (Glavrybvod)
Background
With a design capacity of 42 billion cubic meters of gas per year, the Amur GPP is poised to become one of the world's largest natural gas processing enterprises. At full capacity, the GPP will annually produce 2.4 million tons of ethane, 1.5 million tons of liquefied petroleum gases (LPG), 200,000 tons of pentane-hexane fraction, and 60 million cubic meters of helium, a particularly sought-after element for high-tech industries. The primary consumer of the GPP’s ethane and LPG will be the Amur Gas Chemical Complex (a joint project of SIBUR and Sinopec).
By now, the first two production trains of the GPP have been put into operation, together with the first helium separation, liquefaction and packaging unit.
Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk (part of the Gazprom Group) is the investor, customer, and operator of the Amur GPP. Construction management is carried out by NIPIGAZ.