UZBEKISTAN: Versalis licenses technology for Uzbek LDPE/EVA swing facility
Eni’s Versalis has licensed its low-density polyethylene (LDPE)/ethyl vinyl acetate (EVA) technology to Enter Engineering for a new LDPE/EVA swing unit to be built as part of Jizzakh Petroleum’s methanol-to-olefins (MTO) project in the Karakul region of Uzbekistan. The plant will be designed for a maximum EVA equivalent production capacity of 180,000 t/y. Value of the contract and an expected completion date were not available.
Enter Engineering will act as licensee on behalf of Jizzakh, who will own and operate the entire gas-to-chemical complex once it is complete. Jizzakh earlier said the methanol project involved building a state-of-the-art chemical complex based on MTO technology, which is expected to process 1.5 billion cu m/yr of natural gas for the production of 500,000 t/y of olefins.
Source: Weekly “PetroChemical News”, Durham, NC, USA; 8 Feb 2021
(Syed Rashid Ali, Karachi, Pakistan)