Novy Urengoy gas and chemical complex

VIS Group was the general contractor for the construction and commissioning of the complex from 2009 to 2017. The total area of the construction site is about 600 hectares. The works were carried out in close proximity to the Arctic Circle in an area with difficult climatic conditions.

The project for the construction of the Novy Urengoy Gas Chemical Complex included the construction of a number of large industrial facilities.

General plant facilities

General plant facilities are designed to ensure technological processes and living conditions of the Novy Urengoy Gas Chemical Complex.

The project envisaged the construction of a hot-water boiler house to supply heat to the production and residential buildings and facilities of the complex, as well as hot water supply, a fabrication and welding shop, sewage treatment facilities, an automated gas separation station, an air compression and dehydration unit with a nitrogen-oxygen station, as well as a railway station for receiving materials and equipment and for shipping the products manufactured by the complex.

Gas turbine power plant (Title 20)

The Novy Urengoy Gas Chemical Complex is a production facility with a complex process cycle that requires uninterrupted supply of heat and power.

The required amount of electric power was to be generated by a 120 MW gas turbine power plant (GTPP) located directly at the production site.

Its main fuel is methane fraction from ethylene production, and the reserve fuel is natural gas.

Combined ethane/ethylene production unit (Title 300)

The unit will have a production capacity of up to 420,000 tons per year. The ethylene production technology was developed by Linde AG (Germany).

It will be possible to produce ethylene at NGCC with a concentration of 99.9% directly from ethane, which includes the following stages: ethane extraction from feed gas; ethylene production through high-temperature pyrolysis of ethane with subsequent purification of pyrolysis gases from impurities; low-temperature separation of pyrolysis gases into fractions with ethylene extraction.

It is planned to use gas produced at the Urengoy gas condensate field as feedstock for ethylene production.

High-pressure polyethylene production unit (Title 400)

The overall purpose of the plant is to produce up to 400,000 tons of high-pressure polyethylene per year.

The products will be produced on three technological lines by polymerization of ethylene in a tubular reactor under high pressure in the presence of oxygen as an initiator of the process.

The polyethylene production project was presented by the German company Salzgitter AG.

In less than nine years, a huge amount of work has been done at one of the country's largest industrial facilities. All production buildings were erected on the main production titles (ethane/ethylene unit and high-pressure polyethylene unit), more than 95% of steel structures were assembled, and 80% of process pipelines and equipment were installed.

At all stages the works were carried out under supervision of chief engineers and representatives of licensees - Linde and Tecnimont.

In addition, construction, installation, commissioning and start-up and adjustment works at the 120 MW gas turbine power plant were completed in full and comprehensive tests were successfully carried out.

Many plant facilities have been put into operation, most of the others are in a high degree of readiness.

Due to the construction customer's failure to fulfill a number of key terms and conditions of the general contract and lack of financing, the contract was terminated on the initiative of VIS Production Company as of September 23, 2017.