Air Products to work with Technip on Inner Mongolia LNG project

10/27/2014

Air Products has signed an agreement to supply its proprietary liquefied natural gas (LNG) process technology and equipment to Technip for a mid-scale LNG project in China at Fengzhen City, Inner Mongolia Province, the company announced on Monday.

Air Products' technology at that location will be key to a liquefaction train producing approximately 300,000 tpy of LNG for Fengzhen Wanjie Gas Co.

The LNG facility is targeting onstream production for the second half of 2016.

"With this project, we continue to strengthen our position in the competitive mid-scale LNG market," said Warren Miller, LNG business manager at Air Products.

"Having won several projects of this size, and as a key technology supplier to Technip, we are happy to be providing our state of the art technology and liquefaction expertise for this location," he continued.

"We expect additional projects of this kind as the demand to make available the natural gas from more mid-size undeveloped gas reserves continues to increase."

Miller added that as Air Products continues to demonstrate its ability to serve all sizes and spectrums of the LNG market, this project in Inner Mongolia will benefit significantly from the company's proven LNG project experience around the globe.

Under the agreement, Air Products' single-mixed refrigerant process technology, as well as the engineering, design and manufacturing of the heat exchanger equipment for the liquefaction section, will be supplied for the LNG plant.

Meanwhile, the liquefaction process at this site will use Air Products' proprietary coil wound main cryogenic heat exchanger technology.

The LNG produced will be distributed to the Chinese market to help meet the growing demand for clean energy.