Russian operator lets contract for new methanol plant

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 north-west 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 the 22^nd January.

South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering Company 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 a release on the 19^th April 2019, Hyundai Engineering said FEED activities would take 13 months to complete.

Source: Oil & Gas Journal