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Gas comes to Arkhangelsk Thermal Plant

Arkhangelsk Thermal Plant (photo: Wikipedia)

One of the biggest energy consuming units in Arkhangelsk Oblast, the Arkhangelsk Thermal Plant, will be connected to the Russian gas pipeline grid in late March and transformed from oil to gas use in the course of summer.

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It is Gazprom-subsidiary Gazpromregiongaz, which now is in the final stage of connecting the thermal plant with the Russian gas pipeline grid, a press release from the Arkhangelsk regional administration reads. Together with plant owner TGK-2, the Gazprom unit will make the thermal plant operate on gas from summer this year.

The transformation will significantly help reduce emissions from the plant. Currently, the plant is running exclusively on mazut, the low quality fuel oil.