Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, Sept. 17 / Trend H.Hasanov /
Japanese companies have built structures worth roughly $600 million at the Turkmenbashi Refinery, the Neytralniy Turkmenistan newspaper wrote this week.
Japan has contributed to constructing new, cutting-edge technological equipment, introducing and high-tech, energy-saving technologies. In particular, the Japanese Chieda and Nichimen built a catalytic reforming unit with continuous catalyst regeneration. The plant has a capacity of 750,000 tons per year and is the latest version of advanced platforming technology.
The unit produces a highly active component of A-92 and A-95 modern automotive gasoline. The enterprise also produces unleaded gasoline meeting contemporary environmental standards.
A consortium of Japanese companies also built a plant to produce polypropylene with a capacity of 90,000 tons per year to rationally use the locally produced gas. The plant was built by JGC, Itochu, Nisho Iwai and Marubeni.
JGC built an energy supply complex and off-site facilities to maintain the newly built processing plants. The companies commissioned two high-voltage substations and desalination plants, boilers for steam generation, an automatic telephone system, cable racks, and many-kilometer networks of pipelines, as well as power water recycling, sewage and other infrastructure.
Based on an intergovernmental agreement, JGC and Itochu are also developing proposals on heavy oil residue processing and increasing polypropylene production to 150,000 tons per year.
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