Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 28
By Ilkin Shafiyev - Trend:
The project to create urea (carbamide) plant of Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR in Sumgait city has been completed by 99.9 percent, the plant’s director Khayal Jafarov told Trend Sept. 28.
“Engineering and procurement, as well as construction work has been fully completed,” he said. “Presently, the commissioning work is underway,” Jafarov said.
He also spoke about the timing of receiving the first products from the plant.
“The first product is planned to be received by the end of 2018,” Jafarov said. “However, it’s still premature to name any exact production volumes.”
The cost of the project is 770-780 million euros.
The plant will produce 1,200 tons of ammonia and, subsequently, 2,000 tons of urea per day. It is planned to supply a quarter of production, that is, 150,000-200,000 tons of urea, to the Azerbaijani domestic market. The remaining part will be exported to Turkey, Georgia and the markets of the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea countries.
South Korea’s Samsung Engineering won the tender for the construction of the plant. Samsung Engineering acts as a general contractor of the plant’s construction, but it has no license for production of urea and ammonia, which will be by-product in the urea production process.
Therefore, the relevant licensing agreements were signed with company Haldor Topsoe (Denmark) for production of ammonia and Stamicarbon B.V. (the Netherlands) for production of urea.
Production at the plant will be environmentally friendly. The plant will have an autonomous electricity system. The plant will consume 25-26 MW of electricity per hour.
The urea plant will require 1.3 million cubic meters of gas per day for operation at full capacity.
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