The industrial gas giant, Air Liquide, will continue its partnership with South Korean engineering firm, Samsung Engineering, to build a methanol production plant in Bintulu, Sarawak State, Eastern Malaysia.
The methanol plant will utilise Air Liquide Engineering & Construction’s proprietary process technology, Lurgu MegaMethanol, to convert natural gas into methanol.
This process is expected to produce 5,000 tonnes of methanol per day for the Malaysian state-owned oil and gas firm, Sarawak Petchem.
As an experienced methanol licensor, Air Liquide Engineering & Construction will license the technology required, as well as providing an Air Separation Unit (ASU) with a production capacity of 2,200 tonnes of oxygen per day.
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