Air Liquide Engineering & Construction (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.engineering-airliquide.com) has just signed a new equipment supply contract with Yulin Energy and Chemical Corporation of Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Group, a large energy and chemical company in China. Under the terms of the contract, Air Liquide Engineering & Construction will design and build for Yanchang Yulin two large air separation units (ASUs), each with an oxygen capacity of 1,800 ton/d, to supply oxygen and nitrogen widely used in the chemical industry, for the customer’s mega methanol-to-olefin (MTO) project located in Jingbian Energy & Chemical Integration Industrial Park, Shaanxi Province. The new ASUs will be built by using Air Liquide’s expertise and best-in-class technologies, which enable to maximize energy efficiency.
Air Liquide has a longstanding partnership with Yanchang Group, the fourth largest energy company in China and one of the Fortune Global 500 enterprises. In the 2014, Air Liquide Engineering and Construction delivered two ASUs of 1,440 ton/d each to Yanchang-Jingbian Phase I Project. Two additional ASUs of 1,400 ton/d each are currently under construction to supply oxygen “over the fence” to Yanchang for its project Yanan.