Uzbek GTL plant reaches 95% completion
Apr 13, 2021 7:55:am
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by: Joseph Murphy
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Uzbek GTL plant reaches 95% completion
Uzbekistan's first gas-to-liquids (GTL) project has reached 95.3% completion, with its commissioning and launch ceremony now scheduled to take place in the second half of the year, the project's operator reported on April 13.
The $3.6bn project will convert up to 3.6bn m
3/year of natural gas into 1.5mn metric tons/year of kerosene, diesel, naphtha and LPG. The facility had been due to enter commissioning before the end of last year, but construction was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.
"When completed, the Uzbekistan GTL will bring Uzbekistan a step closer to achieving energy independence and demonstrate the success of our petrochemical growth strategy which consists of expanding our activities from competitively located feedstock, especially derived from gas, to taking advantage of the growing global demand in plastics and clean fuels," the general director of Uzbekistan GTL, Fakhritdin Abdurasulov, commented.