OREANDA-NEWS. A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Wolfgang Buechele, Chief Executive Officer of Linde, took place in St. Petersburg today.

The parties reviewed the progress of the construction project for the Amur gas processing plant (GPP). Linde is a supplier of core process equipment for cryogenic recovery of helium and valuable petrochemical substances from gas. As of today, the German company has started manufacturing the core equipment for the first start-up complex of the Amur GPP. It is also developing the engineering documentation for cryogenic gas separation facilities.

Alexey Miller and Wolfgang Buechele paid particular attention to potential partnership for the localization of gas processing and liquefaction equipment production within Russia.

In addition, the meeting participants addressed further prospects for mutually beneficial cooperation between the companies.

Linde AG is one of the world's largest companies focused on industrial technologies used for natural gas treatment and separation with the recovery of ethane, propane and heavier hydrocarbon fractions. In addition, the company designs and builds cryogenic units for natural gas and helium liquefaction.