MOSCOW (MRC) - The Irkutsk Polymer Plant (IZP, Irkutsk Oil Company project, INK) has installed the last unit of large-sized heavy equipment (KTO) at the polyethylene production site, the company said.
The specialists raised and installed a 500-ton blowing hopper at a height of 60 m, in a special metal frame for collecting blowing products. In total, 44 units were installed at the construction site, which were delivered to Ust-Kut in the fall of 2020 from the port of South Korea.
Work on preparation for the installation of the bunker lasted more than two months at the IZP. In total, specialists assembled 500 tons of metal structures. The base of the frame is fixed on a reinforced concrete foundation 17 m high. Two cranes with a lifting capacity of 1600 and 750 tonnes were used to install the bunker.
"The main technically difficult part of the work has been completed. Currently, large-tonnage crane equipment is being dismantled in order to open further work fronts. The work done is one of the key ones this year," said Alexander Dyadkin, deputy director of IZP.
In August, the heaviest piece of equipment was installed at the construction site - a polymerization reactor, the weight of which is about 530 tonnes, and the height is over 40 m. The reactor was also installed vertically on the foundation using two cranes. The editing took eight hours. One of the largest units was also installed - a deethanizer, more than 80 m long and weighing more than 350 tonnes. Work on the installation of large-sized heavy-weight equipment at the Irkutsk Polymer Plant began in June 2021 and proceeded in accordance with the established schedule.
Irkutsk Oil Company is implementing the construction of a polymer plant in Ust-Kut as part of the creation of a gas chemical cluster, including facilities for the production, treatment, transportation and processing of gas. The production capacity will be 650 thousand tonnes of polyolefins per year.
The Japanese engineering company Toyo Engineering was involved in the construction of the plant, which is responsible for the design, supply of equipment and materials. The general contractor for the construction of polyethylene and ethylene plants is Gemont.
The construction site employs engineers and workers from all over Russia, as well as from Japan, Turkey, France, Holland, and the United States. The launch of the facility in the Ust-Kutsk region will create 1,600 new jobs.
Ethylene and propylene are the main feedstocks for the production of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), respectively.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 1,396,960 tonnes in January-July 2021, up by 7% year on year. Shipments of all grades of ethylene polymers increased. At the same time, PP shipments to the Russian market were 841,990 tonnes in the first seven months of 2021, up by 29% year on year. Supply of propylene homopolymers (homopolymer PP) and block-copolymers of propylene (PP block copolymers) increased, whereas supply of statistical copolymers of propylene (PP random copolymers) subsided.
Irkutsk Oil Company LLC unites companies engaged in geological exploration, exploration and production of hydrocarbons at 41 license areas in Eastern Siberia. INK's main production asset is the Yaraktinskoye field in the Irkutsk region. Nikolay Buinov is the main owner of INK through JSC INK-Capital (INKK). The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development owns 4.4% in the capital of INKK, Goldman Sachs - 3.75%.
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