Friday May 16, 2008 MYT 4:36:05 PM
Petronas’ Labuan methanol plant commissioned
KUALA LUMPUR: Petroliam Nasional Bhd’s subsidiary, Petronas Methanol (Labuan) Sdn Bhd had commissioned its mega methanol plant in Labuan with the firing up of the package boiler, the biggest in Asia.
Petronas said Friday the commissioning would enable the plant's eventual commercial production scheduled for September this year.
The boiler, with a 260-tonne/hour capacity, was delivered to Labuan by MISC Bhd in June last year and installed by local contractors.
The boiler is supported by high quality feed water produced by a reverse osmosis system, while electrical power is supplied from a 14MW gas turbine generator.
The world-scale plant has a production capacity of 5,000 tonnes per day or 1.7 million tonnes per year. The plant will use about 150 million cubic feet of gas from the fields off Sabah as feedstock.
Work started in 2005 and methanol produced from the new plant will be supplied to the domestic market as well the growing markets in South-East Asia, North East Asia and India.
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