MOSCOW (MRC) -- In the South Korean port of Ulsan, the first delivery of heavylift and oversized equipment has been made for ethylene cracker unit to be installed at the ZapSibNeftekhim polyolefin production facility, which is currently under construction, said the company on its site.
While certain types of equipment for ZapSibNeftekhim are not produced in Russia and have to be sourced from abroad, others are being manufactured locally at Uralkhimmash, Kamkabel and ZAVKOM Industries. Equipment delivery contracts have been signed with companies from over 35 regions across Russia.
1st Ulsan shipment includes five columns, including two C3-splitters which are 106 meters long, 6.8 meters in diameter and weighting 917 tons each. The equipment is being transported on a unique ship equipped with two heavylift cranes with a lifting capacity of 900 tonnes each. The ship is designed under Arc 4 ice class, which is fit for sailing via the Northern Sea Route. The equipment has been shipped by sea through the Indian Ocean and the Suez Canal, from where it will travel across the Arctic Ocean to the transshipment ports along the Northern Sea Route. In those ports, the columns will be transshipped onto special barges for further delivery to the industrial port of Tobolsk down the Ob’ and Irtysh rivers.
Once onshore, the equipment will be loaded onto self-propelled module transporters (SPMT) for further carriage to the ZapSibNeftekhim construction site. To make the transportation of heavylift and oversized equipment possible, special infrastructure has been set up in Tobolsk: the industrial port revamped, parking spaces and interim equipment storage sites prepared, the transportation route and enroute power transmission lines rearranged, detour roads designed and built to enable the convoy to bypass various utilities and railway infrastructure.
As MRC informed earlier, SIBUR launched construction of ZapSibNeftekhim,a facility for deep hydrocarbon to polyolefin processing, on 17 February 2015.
SIBUR is a vertically integrated gas processing and petrochemicals company. SIBUR owns and operates Russia’s largest gas processing business in terms of associated petroleum gas processing volumes and is a leader in the Russian petrochemicals industry. SIBUR operates 26 production sites in various regions of Russia. The Group employs 26,000 people. The Company sells its products to over 1,400 major customers engaged in the energy, automotive, construction, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), chemical and other industries in approximately 70 countries worldwide.
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