The Amur GPP/ is/ the largest construction project (in Russia’s Far East), a $14 billion complex (near Svobodny on the Zeya River in Amur Oblast), some 170 kilometers (from the gas pipeline’s China connection point).

The Amur GPP scale/ is/ enormous, the size of 1,100 football fields.

The complex/ will use/ a portion of the huge gas reserves of the Power of Siberia fields (in East Siberia) (to produce/ a mix of petrochemicals (that will include/ ethane, propane, butane, pentane-hexane fraction and 60 million cubic meters of helium annually).
– ethane [éθein] 에탄
– propane [próupein] 프로판
– butane [bjúːtein] 부탄
– pentane-hexane [péntein héksein] 펜탄-헥산
– fraction [화학] 분류 물질
– [híːliəm] 헬륨

These/ are/ all industrial chemical components (in strong demand).
– component 성분

Most important/ is/ the large production of helium, a byproduct of natural gas (used in space industry, metallurgy, medicine and other areas).
– metallurgy [métələ̀ːrdʒi] 1.야금 2.야금술 3.야금학

Amur GPP/ will be/ the largest helium production plant (in the world).

Ethane, propane, butane, pentane-hexane/ will be used (to produce/ polymers, plastics, lubricants and other things including motor fuel).
– polymer 폴리머[중합체]
– lubricant 윤활유, 윤활제

Regional Development

The Amur GPP project (when complete in 2025)/ will be/ the largest gas processing plant complex in Russia and second largest in the world, bringing/ major new economic activity to the underdeveloped Far East region, a priority of the Russian government.
– Amur GPP project = 러시아 극동지역 발전의 기폭제

(In August 2017) Russian President Putin/ was/ present (for the first pouring of the concrete foundation (for the complex)).

(In his remarks) he/ noted/ [that, “In the past 50 years, our country/ has not seen/ anything similar]. Neither the Soviet Union nor Russia/ have implemented/ projects of this scale.
– note 지적하다
– implement 시행하다

This plant’s capacity/ will be/ 42 billion, which is/ a breakthrough not only for the industry but also in the overall development of the Russian Far East.”
– capacity 수용력; 용적; 가능성; 산출[달성] 능력
– breakthrough 획기적 발전; 돌파

Putin/ added, “During peak periods, the construction/ will require/ several thousand people, or almost 25,000 workers, (to be more precise).
– precise 정확한

Once the plant/ is/ complete, it/ will employ/ 2,500 to 3,000 people, which will allow/ us/ not only to move forward (in gas production) but also to create/ conditions (for building/ another giant plant in the country and one of the largest in the world).”
– once S+V 일단 . . .하면

The production (from the Amur plant complex)/ will be marketed for export to the Asian market (as well as expanding/ the gas supply network for Yakutia and the Amur Region (where until now commercial gas/ is/ almost non-existent)).

The strategic partner of Gazprom (responsible for the processing equipment and other engineering technology)/ is/ the German company, Linde, a world leader (in such specialized technology).

The Amur GPP complex/ will bring/ a major boost to Svobodny (which (like many towns in the remote Far East) has been losing/ population (following/ the collapse of the Soviet Union)).
– boost 부양책

The construction phase (as noted)/ is employing/ some 25,000 engineers and construction workers, most (drawn from the region), adding/ a major economic boost.
– phase [feiz] 단계, 국면

In addition Gazprom/ is building/ 42 new apartment buildings and 36 townhouses for some 5,000 people in Svobodny (who will be permanently employed at the facility).

There will also be/ a new school and kindergarten with a swimming pool, clinic, sports and cultural institutions.
– institution 시설

As well, Gazprom/ is cooperating with Amur State University and the Far Eastern Federal University, with new courses (to train/ future specialists in chemical technology).
– cooperate 협력하다
– train 훈련시키다

The municipal government/ is already benefiting from tax payments (from the presence of the project).
– municipal government 지자체 정부
– benefit 이익을 얻다

– 가정법 과거완료 – if S+had pp, S+would have pp
if가 생략되는 문어체에서는 – Had+S+pp, . . .
즉 Had the Obama Administration/ not launched . . .에서 if를 넣으면 If the Obama Administration/ had not launched . . . 가 된다.

– 복합가정 if S+ had pp, S+would . . .

Negotiations (with Beijing) (for the pipeline)/ had been dragging on (for more than ten years) (when the Ukraine coup/ took place).
– negotiation [nigòuʃiéiʃən] 협상
– drag on (시간을) 질질 끌다

(After that coup) a final agreement/ was secured by Moscow with Beijing (in a matter of weeks) (as Putin/ engineered/ a geopolitical pivot to the East (away from NATO)).
– secure 확보하다
– in a matter of . . .만에
– engineer 꾀하다

Vice President Joe Biden/ was named (by Obama) (to oversee/ the Ukraine coup and its aftermath), which apparently included/ some corrupt sweetheart deals (for Hunter Biden and possibly Joe Biden with Ukraine gas company Burisma).
– oversee 감독하다, 감시하다, 두루 살피다
– sweetheart deals 은밀한 계약

The coup,/ carried out by then CIA head John Brennan, using/ sniper mercenaries (from neighboring Georgia), together with neocon US State Department official Victoria Nuland,/ was/ one of the more foolish geopolitical blunders of Washington (in recent decades).
– sniper 저격수
– mercenary [mə́ːrsənèri] 용병
– blunder 큰 실수

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The pro-NATO coup/ was initiated (when Viktor Yanukovich’s government/ had decided/ to accept/ generous Russian terms (to join/ her Eurasian Economic Union (rather than a vague promise of possible EU membership candidate status)).
– initiate 개시하다, 착수하다
– generous 관대한
– terms 조건
– vague [veig] 애매모호한

Today Ukraine/ is treated with outcast status by the EU, and its economy/ is/ a shambles (as a result of the break with Russia).
– outcast status 버려진 지위
– shambles [ʃǽmblz] 아수라장, 개판

In May, 2014, just weeks after the CIA/ toppled/ the duly elected government of Viktor Yanukovich (in what Stratfor founder George Friedman/ called,/ “…the most blatant coup in (US) history),” Moscow/ signed/ the agreement with Beijing for the Gas Pipeline Deal of the Century, the Power of Siberia.
– duly 정식으로