Russian operator lets contract for new methanol plant
Jan. 22, 2020
Gaz Sintez LLC has let a contract to Haldor Topsoe AS to license its proprietary SynCOR methanol technology for the operator’s proposed methanol plant at the port of Vlysotsk in Russia’s Leningrad region, 875 km northwest of Moscow.
The plant, which will produce 1.6 million tonnes/year of AA-grade methanol, is scheduled to be completed in 2023, Haldor Topsoe said on Jan. 22.
South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering Co. has started development of front-end engineering design on the project, with Russia’s JSC NIIK (Research and Design Institute of Urea and Organic Synthesis Products) to serve as general design contractor, according to Haldor Topsoe.
Upon announcing its contract award for the project in an Apr. 29, 2019, release, Hyundai Engineering said FEED activities would take 13 months to complete.
Robert Brelsford joined Oil & Gas Journal in October 2013 as downstream technology editor after 8 years as a crude oil price and news reporter on spot crude transactions at the US Gulf Coast, West Coast, Canadian, and Latin American markets. He holds a BA (2000) in English from Rice University and an MS (2003) in education and social policy from Northwestern University.
