Surhan Gas Chemical Operating Co. FC LLC (SGCOC) has let a contract to John Wood Group PLC, Aberdeen, to provide a feasibility study for development of Uzbekistan’s “25 Years of Independence” gas field, including construction of a gas-to-chemical complex, in the Surkhandarya region in the southern part of the country (OGJ Online, Nov. 29, 2017).
The gas field will process 4 billion cu m of raw natural gas containing a high amount of sulfur and carbon dioxide to be treated in a gas processing plant (GPP) for purification, mainly to remove water and sour components to eventually produce a stream of treated natural gas, Wood said.
The treated gas will be partly used for direct sale on the domestic or export market and partly used to produce polyolefins—including polyethylene and polypropylene—in the dedicated GCC to be operated by SGCOC, said the service provider, which did not disclose a value or timeframe for its work on the project.
Reserves of the 25 Years of Independence gas field and the O’zbekiston Mustaqillik investment block currently are estimated at more than 100 billion cu m.
The project has an overall timeframe of 35 years and will cost an estimated $2 billion, project partners said in November 2017.
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