Within the tender, the contractor should supply two turboexpanoer generators and three gascompressor units with total capacity of 6 billion cubic meters of gas a year for propane-butane preparation facility (PBPF) at Shortanneftegaz.

Interested parties should submit their application by 5 March 2010, the announcement of the company said.

Purchase of equipment is carried out within the project on construction of fifth and sixth line of PBPF at Shortanneftegaz fir additional production of 100,000 tonnes of liquefied gas a year. The project will be realized within two years. It is planned to launch construction of the facility in the first half of 2010.

Second, third and fourth lines of PBPF were constructed at Shortanneftegaz in 2007-2008 with the capacity of 9 billion cubic meters of gas and production of 135,000 tonnes of liquefied gas a year.

This allowed to increase capacity of the production of liquefied gas at the enterprise to 175,000 tonnes. The project cost is US$226.6 million.