MOSCOW (MRC) -- Petronas has awarded Air Products an LNG heat exchanger order for a major LNG project in Malaysia, reported Hydrocarbonprocessing.
Air Products' SplitMR liquefaction process and technology was selected and will be supplied to the Petronas LNG Train 9 Project. This project will produce 3.6 million tpy of LNG and is an expansion of the existing Petronas LNG complex in Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia.
Overall, Air Products' LNG technology and equipment is currently employed in the facility's eight existing production trains designed to produce 25.7 million tpy of LNG. Production of LNG will increase to 29.3 million tpy via the additional ninth train with Air Products involvement at the Bintulu facility, targeted for startup by the end of 2015.
As MRC informed previously, in early 2013, Petronas and BASF scrapped a proposed joint venture to develop a specialty chemicals production facility in Malaysia. Earlier, in October, 2012, Petronas announced that it was planning to terminate its vinyl business to help optimise its portfolio. The company's vinyl business are formed by three plants located in the Kerteh integrated petrochemical complex, Malaysia, and a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant in Vung Tau, Vietnam.
Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG) is the leading integrated chemicals producer in Malaysia and one of the largest in Southeast Asia. Company is involved primarily in manufacturing, marketing and selling a diversified range of chemical products, including olefins, polymers, fertilisers, methanol and other basic chemicals and derivative products.
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