Petronas begins methanol unit commissioning work

16 May 2008 05:28  [Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Petronas Methanol has commenced commissioning work at its 1.7 m tonne/year methanol facility in Labuan, Malaysia with the firing up of the plant’s package boiler, it said on Friday.

The package boiler with a 260 tonne/hour capacity was fired up on Tuesday, it added in a statement.

The plant, which uses Lurgi technology, would consume 150 m cubic feet of feedstock gas from the fields offshore Sabah, it said.

Construction on the plant had begun in 2005 and methanol from this plant would be supplied to domestic and export markets in Asia and India, it added.

The company expected to ship commercial volumes of methanol in the fourth-quarter, a company source said.

Petronas operates another 700,000 tonne/year methanol plant at the same location.

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