Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Oct. 2
By Huseyn Hasanov - Trend
A consortium created by the Japanese Mitsubishi Corporation and Turkey’s Gap Insaat is implementing a project for the industrial processing of natural gas to ammonia and carbamide in the city of Garabogaz (Balkan region, Turkmenistan), the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported Oct. 2.
Start-up work is underway. Emergency diesel generators, air supply units have been prepared, testing of high-pressure pipelines, as well as construction of a gas supply pipeline are being completed.
According to the customer, the Turkmenhimiya State Concern, more than 82 percent of the equipment necessary for the start-up of the enterprise has been installed. The construction work has been completed by over 80 percent.
The technologies of the Danish Haldor Topse and the US UOP LLC will be used in ammonia production. The technology of the Italian Saipem company will be used in the carbamide synthesis section.
The technology of the Netherlands’ Uhde Fertilizer Technology will be used while granulating the concentrated carbamide solution. The enterprise will produce 1.155 million tons of carbamide per year. The annual volume of nitrogen fertilizers produced in the country will exceed 2 million tons.
Around a third of these products will be supplied to the domestic market, the rest - for export. At this stage, reconstruction of a quay, from which the fertilizers will be transported by sea, is underway in Garabogaz city.
It was earlier reported that the plant will be the biggest enterprise of this kind in the country and the contract is estimated at approximately $1.3 billion.
