Turkmenistan and Japan discuss progress on second Turkmen GTG plant
State-owned Turkmengaz and Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd are advancing plans for a proposed expansion of Turkmengaz’s recently commissioned natural gas-to-gasoline (GTG) complex at Ovadan-Depe near Ashgabat, in Turkmenistan’s Akhal region.
In a virtual meeting on the 26th August heads of the companies reviewed implementation plans for construction of a second GTG plant at the Ovadan-Depe GTG complex as part of an ongoing bilateral collaboration partnership between Turkmenistan and Japan in the petrochemicals sector, Turkmen state media said on the 28th August.
Turkmengaz, however, disclosed no details regarding either production capacities or the construction timeframe of the proposed second GTG plant.
Built by a consortium of Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Rönesans Endüstri Tesisleri Inşaat Sanaýi ve Ticaret AŞ and officially entered into operation in June 2019, Turkmengaz’s US$1.7-billion GTG complex is designed to process 1.785 billion cu m/year of natural gas to produce 600,000 tonnes/year of Euro 5-compliant A-93 gasoline as well as 115,000 tpy of liquefied gas and 12,000 tpy of diesel using Haldor Topsoe AS’s proprietary Topsoe Improved Gasoline Synthesis (Tigas), which involves a combination of SynCOR Methanol technology with a gasoline synthesis loop.
Late in 2019, Turkmengaz signed a memorandum of understanding with Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Sojitz Corporation for design and construction of the second GTG complex, also presumably to be based on Topsoe’s Tigas technology.
Source: Oil & Gas Journal