New Natural Gas Facility By Black & Veatch Powers Growing Chengdu Economy
Success for Dazhou Huixin Energy Co. Ltd., as liquefied natural gas facility reaches full capacity in only four days
The Dazhou liquefied natural gas facility, which features Black & Veatch's patented PRICO® refrigeration process, recently achieved full capacity operation just four days after initial start up began. Similar plants, using other refrigeration processes, can take several weeks – or even up to a year – before capacity operations are achieved.
The plant is located near the city of Chengdu and is now helping the Dazhou Huixin Energy Co. Ltd., power continued industrial growth in the region of more than 8 million people.
"Selecting the Black & Veatch – Chemtex team is equivalent to selecting success. PRICO is the best suitable LNG technology for China," said Mr. Wu le Xian, CEO of Dazhou Huixin Energy Co. and Erdos Xingxing Energy Co.
Natural gas from the Dazhou facility will be shipped via tanker trunk to local distribution points to be vaporized and used as fuel for residential heating, business, power plants and transportation.
"A challenge for many of our clients in China is the availability of a natural gas supply," said Hoe Wai Cheong, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Black & Veatch's energy business in Asia. "In addition, many supply agreements are ‘take or pay,' meaning our clients will have to pay for the gas even if they are unable to take it. For this reason, it is essential to their business that we are able to start up these new plants quickly and reliably."
Dazhou is the third Black & Veatch-Chemtex facility to begin commercial operation in China since 2008, and a duplicate design of the Erdos Xingxing Energy Source Co. plant that began commercial operation in 2008 for the same client group.
"In addition to ease of operation and rapid start up capabilities, the greatest advantage of the innovative Black & Veatch PRICO liquefied natural gas process for our clients is its flexibility in capacity and in feed gas composition," said Brian Price, Vice President of LNG Technologies for Black & Veatch. "Our clients receive their natural gas supplies from a variety of sources. These sources can have wide ranging chemical composition and conditions. Our PRICO process is the only sustainable approach to provide this needed flexibility."
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SOURCE: Black & Veatch