- World's largest methanol
plant.
Construction has begun in Trinidad & Tobago on what is thought to be the world's largest methanol plant, reports Oil & Gas Journal (Aug. 8, 2003): Methanol Holdings (Trinidad) Ltd. is building the US$500 million plant, which will have a capacity of 5,000 tons/day. This means the "M 5000" plant ......
- New petrochemical plant.
Trinidad's booming petrochemicals sector is poised for more growth with the opening of a new US$500 million (euro413 million) methanol plant, which the Caribbean nation is touting as the world's largest, reports AP (Oct. 27, 2005): The plant in the central town of Point Lisas, will produce 1.8 million metric ......
- METHANOL PLANT PURCHASE.
The world's largest producer of methanol became a little larger last week as Canada-based Methanex finally closed its acquisition of Saturn Methanol Co. LLC, a Trinidad producer, reports Oxy-Fuel News (October 9, 2000). The US$28 million deal, first inked last March, was delayed pending successful start-up of Saturn's new 283 ......
- OMAN - Sohar Methanol.
Methanol Holding Int'l (50%), MAN Ferrostaal of Germany (20%) and Omzest (30%) are grouped in Oman Methanol Co. (OMC) which has a 3,000 t/d methanol plant built in Sohar in late 2007. Instead of a 5,000 t/d plant to cost over $550m, the partners opted for a smaller unit and ......
- Business update: Plants and projects
Liquid Production Facility Launched Construction and startup of the Southern Air Products (Guangzhou) Ltd. liquid production facility has been completed in Guangdong Province, China. Said to be the largest of its kind, the stand-alone plant supplies many manufacturers in the region. Its capacity on a combined basis includes 500 m.t./d ......
- BOOST FOR ENERGY SECTOR.
CL Financial and its partners will invest more than TT$13 billion in the energy sector over the next five years, said Rampersad Mootilal, CEO of Methanol Holdings, the company in which CL Financial owns 52%, reports The Trinidad Express (Feb. 6, 2002). Mootilal outlined the projects as a methanol plant, ......
- US$700 million petrochemical
complex.
Plans for a complex of petrochemical plants here moved ahead as a firm announced an agreement with the Trinidad & Tobago National Gas Co., reports AP (Oct. 27, 2004). The Caribbean Petrochemical Manufacturing Co. signed the agreement to build a TT$4.2 billion (US$700 million) complex that will convert natural gas ......