US-based Red Mountain Energy Corporation has supplied OOO Surgutneftegas with a nitrogen air separation unit (ASU), according to the company’s press office.
The nitrogen ASU is located in Fedorovsky in the Tyumen province, 55km from Surgut in the heard of Siberia. The value of the contract exceeds $7m, gasworld understands.
The ASU was commissioned in the first half of December 2009 and now produces 2 tons of liquid nitrogen per hour from air.
The nitrogen produced by the ASU is used for the development and maintenance of oil wells as well as for other processing steps in the oil-and-gas industry.
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