Lyngby, Denmark — In collaboration with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (GM Aug. 25, p. 12), Haldor Topsoe A/S has been selected for the design of a new ammonia plant for a major fertilizer project in Turkmenistan. The project also includes project partners Mitsubishi Corp. and the Turkish construction company GAP İnşaat. The plant is scheduled to go onstream in June 2018 in the city of Garabogaz on the coast of the Caspian Sea. Using Turkmenistan’s abundant natural gas reserve as feedstock, the plant will have a daily capacity of 2,000 mt/d of ammonia and 3,500 mt/d of urea. Besides engineering design and licensing, the delivery from Haldor Topsoe also includes proprietary hardware related to the ammonia process technology, as well as catalysts. The fertilizer plant represents one of two major contracts in Turkmenistan that has been awarded to Haldor Topsoe this month. On Aug. 26, it won a contract for the construction of a plant focused on the conversion of natural gas into synthetic gasoline.
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