Linde Bags Inner Mongolia LNG Plant Contract

German engineering giant, Linde, has been awarded a contract to supply a mid-scale LNG plant near Beinichuan in Inner Mongolia, it said November 16 without disclosing the value of the contract.

The contract was awarded by chemical and energy company Inner Mongolia Huineng Coal Chemical Company. This will be Linde’s seventh and largest LNG plant to date in China and is in response to growing demand from customers in China, it said.

Linde's engineering division will be responsible for engineering, procurement and site services for the LNG plant with a nameplate capacity of 0.75 million metric tons/year of LNG.

Inner Mongolia Huineng Coal Chemical is primarily engaged in the construction and operation of coal-to-gas and LNG projects.