Kanchurin-Musin underground gas storage
In 2004 Stroytransgaz concluded a general contract to reconstruct and enlarge the Kanchurin Musin underground gas storage facility in the Republic of Bashkortostan. The project’s objective is to stabilize delivery of heating fuel to the Privolzhsky region. Bashtransgaz (Gazprom) is customer for the project.
Stroytransgaz completed the first start-up complex in December 2006. The company built a storage unit with capacity to hold 200 million cubic meters of gas, a compressor unit, a gas treatment plant, two UGS-10 Ural gas-compressor units, a gas distribution station. It reconstructed gas pipelines and gas pipeline branches as well as building technological, energy, and exploitation objects.
As a result of reconstruction, the volume of active gas that can be stored in the complex is 1.5 times higher — rising from 3.4 billion cubic meters to 5.5 billion cubic meters, and maximum daily gas extraction rose to 55 million cubic meters while exploiting 142 production wells.
In 2007 Stroytransgaz began constructing objects for the second start-up complex: units for separating and weathering condensate, a drainage tank, an oil pump room, gas pipeline and branch assemblies, a diesel power station, four UGS-10 Ural gas compressor units, an air compression room, as well as technological, energy, and operating facilities.
Reconstruction of the second start-up complex is to be completed in 2008.