MOSCOW (MRC) -- Petronas Chemical Group Berhad (PCG), Grupa Azoty Zaklady Azotowe "Pulawy" SA (Pulawy) and Sipitang Oil & Gas Development Corp. (SOGDC) has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to conduct a joint feasibility study for producing urea and ammonia derivatives in Sipitang Oil & Gas Industrial Park (SOGIP) in Sabah, Malaysia, as per Hydrocarbonprocessing.
This non-binding MoU marks the beginning of a collaboration between PCG, Pulawy and SOGDC for the development of urea and ammonia derivatives for the Asian agriculture industry.
The parties will undertake a preliminary technical, economic, raw material supply, logistic, infrastructure and utilities study for the development of the petrochemical products.
"Grupa Azoty Pulawy has unique competence in the production and processing of urea," said Marian Rybak, president of Pulawy's board of directors.
"Our business strategy involves the production of high-value products based on urea as melamine and urea solution used to reduce exhaust emissions in cars and power plants," he added.
As MRC informed previously, in September 2014, SINOPEC Engineering said it formally entered into a package contract of engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) of an oil refining and petrochemical integrated engineering project with PRPC Refinery and Cracker Sdn. Bhd., a subsidiary of Petroliam Nasional Bhd, at a contract sum of about USВ1.329 billion. Project RAPID is located in the region of Pengerang, Johor, Malaysia.
RAPID is part of the bigger PETRONAS Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) development worth an estimated 27 Billion US Dollars, which comprises of RAPID and its associated facilities including the Pengerang Co-generation Plant (PCP), Re-gasification Terminal 2 (RGT2), Air Separation Unit (ASU), Raw Water Supply Project (PAMER), Crude and Product Tanks (SPV2) as well as central and shared Utilities and Facilities (UF). RAPID will consist of a 300,000 barrels per stream day refinery and petrochemical complex with a combined capacity of producing 7.7 mln tpa of various grades of products, including differentiated and specialty chemicals products such as synthetic rubbers and high-grade polymers.
Petronas, short for Petroliam Nasional Berhad, is a Malaysian oil and gas company wholly owned by the Government of Malaysia. The Group is engaged in a wide spectrum of petroleum activities, including upstream exploration and production of oil and gas to downstream oil refining; marketing and distribution of petroleum products; trading; gas processing and liquefaction; gas transmission pipeline network operations; marketing of liquefied natural gas; petrochemical manufacturing and marketing; shipping; automotive engineering; and property investment.
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