Linde Hired at Far East Gas Chemical Project

Germany’s Linde has won an engineering, procurement and site services contract for a cracker unit at a gas-based petrochemical project in the Russian Far East, it said on February 7.

The Amur gas chemical complex (GCC) project is being developed by Sibur, Russia’s top petrochemical producer. It is slated to start operations in 2024, producing 2.3mn mt/yr of polyethylene and 400,000 mt of polypropylene.

Linde will provide services to the Amur GCC through a consortium with Sibur subsidiary Nipigaz, providing its proprietary technology for the cracker unit.

Sibur is yet to take a final investment decision on the Amur GCC. The complex will rely on LPG and ethane feedstock supplied from a nearby gas processing plant being built by Gazprom. Linde was selected in 2016 to provide this plant’s cryogenic gas separation technology.