STGM LLC completes work at Yuzhnaya CRMB and prepares Severnaya CRMB for commissioning

STGM LLC has completed work at the Yuzhnaya Commodities and Raw Materials Base (CRMB) site. The company has built interconnected facilities including a product pipeline rack and a railway loading/unloading rack followed by 2.5 km of approach lines. This chain is for NGL to be supplied fr om Yuzhnaya CRMB to railway transport. At present, start-up work is closing completion at the built facilities.

Also closing completion is work at Severnaya CRMB, wh ere STGM is revamping 2 insulated tanks, each 20,000 m3 in capacity. According to Project Director Alexey Grigoriev, as the tanks were built 30 years ago, efforts were undertaken to restore them, build related facilities and install all utility systems and services for the entire CRMB infrastructure to function.

To date, 95% of metal structures and 80% of pipelines of the construction projects have been installed: an integrated control room, pump house, cooling plant, antifreeze heating and NGL pumping units, and flare package. The work performed by STGM also includes the installation of intershop utilities and heat/materials ducts, power supply and communication systems, water supply and sewerage networks. Additionally, STGM will provide for approach lines and intraplant roads. Special emphasis is placed on the fire extinguishing system that comprises a new foam fire extinguishing unit, firewater pump house and two ponds.

Construction is carried out at Tobolsk industrial site to the order of Tobolsk-Neftekhim LLC, a SIBUR’s enterprise involved in hydrocarbon material processing.

Renovation of storage CRMBs is needed owing to Tobolsk-Neftekhim’s intention to double NGL processing output to provide Tobolsk-Polymer, a recently commissioned large production facility located nearby, with raw materials. While “feeding” on the neighbouring plant’s raw materials, Tobolsk-Polymer will produce up to 500,000 tonnes of polypropylene per year.

Work at CRMBs is scheduled for completion in June 2014.