Purovsky Plant
Gas condensate is produced from our fields in an unstable form and requires further processing before it can be delivered to our customers. Our primary gas condensate processing asset is the Purovsky Plant, which has total processing capacity of five mmt of de-ethanized gas condensate per annum, that allows us to produce approximately 3.7 mmt of stable gas condensate and approximately 1.3 mmt of LPG per annum. The Purovksy Plant is located in the YNAO and in close proximity to the East- Tarkosalinskoye field.
The Purovsky Plant is an important link in our midstream value chain that provides us complete operational control over our processing needs and access to higher yielding marketing channels for our stable gas condensate. Our ability to control the processing function allows us to produce stabilized gas condensate and LPG that are of higher-quality than the output that would result from a third-party processor.
The Purovsky Plant receives feedstock from two sources; through our unstable gas condensate pipelines from the East-Tarkosalinskoye and Khancheyskoye fields, and our unstable gas condensate pipeline from the Yurkharovskoye and Sterkhovoye fields. In August 2010, we launched a 326 kilometer, three mmt per annum unstable gas condensate pipeline from the Yurkharovskoye field to the Purovsky Plant. The commissioning of this pipeline allows us to increase the quality of our processed products by eliminating the quality dilution, which occurred when gas condensate from the Yurkharovskoye field was mixed with other producers' gas condensate, during delivery to the Purovsky Plant using Gazprom's trunk pipeline.
During 2011, NOVATEK processed 3,869 thousand tons of unstable de-ethanized gas condensate at the Purovsky Processing Plant, of which 984 thousand tons was processed in the fourth quarter.