China’s Xishan Coal & Electricity Power plans $1.5m chem project

07 July 2010 09:32  [Source: ICIS news]

GUANGZHOU (ICIS news)--China’s Xishan Coal and Electricity Power Co plans to invest yuan (CNY) 10m ($1.5m) to build a coal-based chemical project in Anze county in the northern province of Shanxi, a company source said on Wednesday.

The project would include a 1m tonne/year coal coking plant, a 1m tonne/year methanol unit and a 700,000 tonne/year dimethyl ether (DME) factory, the source said.

Construction of the methanol and DME plants, to be done in two to three phases, would begin once the source of feedstock coal for downstream chemical production was established, the source said.

“We’ve obtained all necessary approvals from [the] Shanxi local government and are now waiting for a coal mining license issued by the central government,” the source said.

The license was expected to be granted within the first half of next year, he noted.

The company would be able to produce 300,000 tonnes/year of methanol and 200,000 tonnes/year of DME at the site once the first phase of the project was completed, the source said.

Capacity additions in the second and third phases of the project have yet to be decided, he added.

($1 = CNY6.78)

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