GLOBAL MARKET DEVELOPMENTS
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→ SWEDEN
The new mid-scale LNG import terminal in Lysekil, 100km north of Gothenburg, built by The Linde Group is scheduled to start operations in spring 2014. Supplying natural gas to the nearby Preem refinery, as well as LNG for industrial and transportation applications, the terminal will have a storage capacity of 30,000 cubic metres (m3) of LNG and will include a truck filling station. The Linde Group was commissioned by Norwegianbased Skangass AS to build the terminal on the west coast of Sweden in a contract worth around €44m. The works include the integration of cryogenic tank structures erected by a third party.
→ RUSSIA
Not one but two industrial gas facilities are expected on-stream in the Rostov region of Russia this year, by Air Products. The company’s new 200 tpd oxygen, nitrogen and argon liquefier and separate cylinder gases depot in Krasny Sulin, a combined investment of more than €25m, are forecast to be operating in early 2014. The new liquefier and cylinder gases depot will allow Air Products to supply liquid and packaged gases to the metal, glass, food, chemical and refining industries in the Rostov region and the surrounding areas. A revamp of NKNH’s existing LAO plant in Nizhnekamsk (Russian Federation) is also set to come on-stream by mid 2014, supplying NKNH with 37.5 kta linear alpha olefins with maximized production of C4 and C6 fractions. NKNH awarded Linde Engineering the contracts for the license, basic/detail engineering and supply of equipment and materials for revamping the plant. The project partially makes use of the existing equipment of NKNH’s former LAO plant, with implementation of Alpha-SABLIN® technology.
→ UKRAINE
Announced in 2011 and originally set for commissioning in mid-2014 is a new 1,700 tpd ASU in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, designed, built and managed by Air Liquide. The ASU is part of a long-term supply contract with local firm Metinvest and will produce oxygen, nitrogen and argon in what was reported to be the first outsourcing of industrial gases for the metals and minerals conglomerate. Construction of the ASU came at an investment of €100m.
→ AUSTRIA
The Tyczka Group is set to commence operations at its €23m production plant for technical gases at the Braunau/Neukirchen Industrial Park in Austria later this year. Having a secured a long-term supply contract with Austria’s largest aluminium producer, AMAG Austria Metall AG, Tyczka Group welcomes the plant on-stream in fourth quarter 2014 after approximately two years of construction. The plant will have a capacity of 215 tpd and will enable the group to produce and market technical gases independently in the three-country triangle of Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic.
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