
Baltic Chemical Complex (BCC) and China National Chemical Engineering No. 7 Construction Company (CC-7) have agreed an amendment No. 3 to an EPC contract for a gas chemical complex as a part the one in Ust-Luga to process ethane-containing gas. BCC Managing Director Konstantin Makhov and CC-7 Chairman of Board long Haiyang signed the document.
Under the agreement, the contractor shall do the required paperwork, place orders and purchase materials and equipment, protect copyright, do all the construction and pre-commissioning works. Amendment No. 3 (stage 3) is the final document under the EPC contract BCC and CC-7 inked in October 2019. The parties entered into stage one and stage two agreements in November 2019 and August 2020 respectively.
The land development, the pile installation, the steel reinforcement cage tying and the foundation concreting are underway on the site now. The contractor is also building construction camps, temporary access and on-site roads and power infrastructure facilities.
The complex for processing of ethane-containing gas is a unique world-scale project in Ust-Luga, Leningrad Oblast, Russia, under development by RusGazDobycha and Gazprom with assistance from the state corporation VEB.RF. The complex will include a natural gas processing chemical plant (45 million m3 per year), Europe's largest LNG facility (13 million t per year) and the unique world's largest PE one (up to 3 million t per year). It is also an integrated production complex, which minimises construction, maintenance and procurement costs.