By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Sept.15 -- ENAP Refinerías SA, a subsidiary of National Chilean Oil Co., awarded a $70 million, 15 year hydrogen supply contract to AGA SA, the Chilean subsidiary of Wiesbaden, Germany- based Linde AG.
AGA will finance, construct, and operate a hydrogen processing plant at Chile's largest refinery in Concón near Valparaíso and a hydrogen trailer filling station and carbon dioxide plant. The plant, which has a capacity of 50,000 cu m of hydrogen and 100 tonnes/day of liquid carbon dioxide, is scheduled to begin operation in mid-2006.
ENAP will use the hydrogen to produce low-sulfur diesel, enabling the application of modern catalyst technologies
