A five-day kick-off meeting for Russia Amur Natural Gas Treatment Plant was held at Milan, Italy from June 26 to 30, signalizing the project moving into a new stage. Attendants of the meeting include the senior leaders from the owner Gazprom, the general contractor NIPIgas and the contractor TECNIMENT, the leaders of the company and the SEG representatives.

The EPC contract for the project was signed at St. Petersburg on June 2, which is to be jointly implemented by TECNIMENT and the company, starting from June 2017 and terminates in October 2019. Located in Blagoveshchensk, the capital city of Amurskaya Oblast in the Far East Region of Russia, the project has a raw material treatment capacity of 42 billion m3/year.