Honeywell UOP installs China largest propane dehydrogenation unit

MOSCOW (MRC) -- Honeywell announced the commissioning and operation of the largest operating single-train propane dehydrogenation unit in China, said Hydrocarbonprocessing.

Yantai Wanhua Polyurethanes Group Co. Ltd., is using Honeywell UOP's C3 Oleflex process technology to convert propane into 750,000 metric tpy of propylene, the primary component used for making plastics, packaging and synthetic fibers. With this unit, the global production capacity of Oleflex technology is now approximately 6.8 MMtpy.

"As China's largest Oleflex unit, this represents a significant expansion in the country's propylene capacity and a big step toward meeting local demand for propylene," said Mike Millard, vice president and general manager of Honeywell UOP's Process Technology and Equipment business. "No other technology works as efficiently and produces as much high-quality propylene as the Oleflex process."

China consumes more than 15% of the world's propylene and its demand is growing more than 4% per year, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

Since 2011, Honeywell UOP's Oleflex technology has been chosen for 40 of the world's 47 new propane and isobutane dehydrogenation projects licensed worldwide.

In addition to technology licensing, Honeywell UOP provided the engineering design, equipment, staff training, technical service and catalyst for the project. The Oleflex unit is part of a large complex that also includes Honeywell UOP LPG hydrotreating technology, a Butamer C4 isomerization unit, and PSA, or pressure swing adsorption, units to produce high-purity hydrogen.
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MOSCOW (MRC) -- The next export trades at the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan were held in the first three days of May. 7,500 tonnes of polypropylene (PP) were sold, as per ICIS-MRC Price report.

On 1 May, Turkmenbashi Gas Processing Plant's 11,500 tonnes of PP were put up for auction at the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan at the starting price of USD960/tonne FCA/FOB port of Turkmenbashi.

Buying activity in the trades was not as high as in April. However, about 7,500 tonnes of PP to be shipped within 4-6 months were contracted at the starting price in the first three days of the trades.

As reported earlier, in April, Turkmenbashi GPP's 45,000 tonnes of PP were put up for auction in the export trades of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan. The put up for action PP was aimed for shipment within 9 months at the starting price of USD960/tonne FCA/FOB port of Turkmenbashi. 33,500 tones of PP were sold at the Commodity Exchange for the whole month.
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MOSCOW (MRC) -- China's state-owned refiner China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) said it has loaded the first crude oil through its Myanmar-to-China pipeline, the latest step towards supplying crude to its new refinery in Yunnan province, reported Reuters.

Some 1,150 cubic meters per hour of crude flowed into the 480-mi pipeline from Tuesday, CNPC said in a statement on Tuesday.

The move comes almost a month after the first tanker carrying 140 Mt of crude started discharging into the pipeline following the official launch.

CNPC's PetroChina plans to import overseas oil and pump it through the pipeline to supply its new 260,000-bpd Anning refinery in landlocked Yunnan province.

The pipeline starts at Kyauk Phyu in Myanmar's west and enters China at the border city Ruili and is a joint investment by CNPC and the Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise.

As MRC informed earlier, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) will join UzIndoramaGazChemical, a joint venture that will build a USD2.5 bln complex to produce polyethylene at the Mubarek Gas Refinery in Uzbekistan's Kashkadarya region. CNPC had signed a memorandum to join Uzbek national oil and gas company Uzbekneftegaz and Singapore's Indorama Group in the joint venture.

China National Petroleum Corporation operates oil and gas assets in Africa, Central Asia/the Russian Federation, America, the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific, and other regions. The company engages in hydrocarbon exploration and production operations in onshore and offshore areas; operates refineries and petrochemical enterprises that produce crude oil products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene and lube oil, etc.; and manufactures and supplies chemical products, such as synthetic resins, fibers, rubber, urea, organic/inorganic chemical products.
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МОCOW (MRC) -- Novatek of Russia signed a framework agreement on strategic cooperation with Technip, Linde and Research and Design Institute for Gas Processing (NIPIGas) on Arctic LNG 2, said Novatek.

The companies agreed on conditions for the design and development of future LNG plants based on gravity-based structures for the Arctic LNG 2 project as well as subsequent liquefied natural gas projects developed by Novatek.

Novatek also signed the license agreement with Linde AG to purchase the license on natural gas liquefaction technology for the Arctic LNG 2 project.

Speaking of the agreement, Novatek’s chairman Leonid Mikhelson said that the company has gained competencies regarding LNG projects through the development of the Yamal LNG.

"We have chosen a new technical design concept for our next LNG project," Mikhelson said, adding that the newly signed agreements improve the economics on the company’s next LNG projects.

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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Iraq's oil ministry said on Thursday it had started loading a tanker with 2 MMbbl of crude oil bound for Egypt, marking the first shipment under a bilateral agreement, reported Reuters.

Under a one-year agreement reached last month between Iraq and Egypt, Iraq will sell 12 MMbbl of oil to Egypt, the ministry said.

As MRC informed before, in 2015, CB&I was awarded a contract by Carbon Holdings for the license and engineering design of a polypropylene (PP) unit to be built in Ain Sokhna, Egypt. The unit will be aligned to the Tahrir petrochemical complex and use CB&I's Novolen technology to produce 350,000 tpy of PP.

Besides, in April 2017, Bechtel, a company in engineering, procurement, and construction, announced that it had been awarded two contracts by Carbon Holdings of Egypt: one to provide project management services for the Tahrir Petrochemicals Complex at Ain Sokhna, Egypt, and one to build two new PP units at an adjacent site.
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