Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Aug. 19
By Huseyn Hasanov – Trend:
A report on the completion of the construction of a plant for the production of carbamide in Garabogaz town of Turkmenistan’s Balkan region and the ongoing work on the commissioning of the plant was heard at a meeting of the Turkmen government, the Turkmen Dovlet Khabarlary state news agency reported.
The project is implemented by a consortium of Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation and Turkey’s Gap Insaat company.
The plant is fully provided with electricity through the operation of gas turbine generator systems, as well as with sea water purified by chemical method.
The implementation of this project is of great importance for strengthening the national economy of Turkmenistan as a whole, Turkmen Dovlet Khabarlary cited the country’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov as saying.
The new complex is being built in accordance with the industrialization program aimed at the full realization of the country's significant resource potential, increasing the volume of the exported industrial products, including the mineral fertilizers which are in demand in foreign markets.
The plant is designed to produce 1,155 million tons of carbamide per year. The technologies of the Danish Haldor Topsoe AS company, the US UOP company, the Italian Saipem company and the Dutch Uhde Fertilizer company are used in the project.
After the commissioning of the plant, the annual volume of nitrogen fertilizers produced in the country will exceed two million tons. About a third of these products will be supplied to the domestic market, the rest will be exported.
It was reported earlier that it will be the biggest plant of this kind in the country. The contract has been valued at approximately $1.3 billion.
Currently, the reconstruction of the berth in Garabogaz is underway, from where the products will be sent for export by sea vessels.