BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 19. Uzbekistan’s MTO gas-chemical complex announced the signing of a contract with the UK’s Wood Plc (“Wood”) company to support the project with detailed engineering and procurement assistance services, Trend reports via the press service of the MTO GCC.
The agreement includes a detailed design of processing units for methanol, methanol-to-olefin, mono-ethylene glycol, low-density polyethylene, and polypropylene. Wood will also devise a strategy for integrating a digital control system covering the entire facility.
This digital system implements control and manageability of technological processes and ensures safe modes of equipment operation in emergency situations.
Wood cooperates in several project stages with Enter Engineering, Central Asia’s largest EPC provider, and the main contractor for the $2.5 billion facility located in the Bukhara region.
Previously, Uzbekistan created a new "Karakul" Free Economic Zone (FEZ) in the Bukhara region.
The gas chemical complex based on MTO technology (GCC MTO), currently under construction at the location of the FEZ, will form the core of an industrial cluster, where high-tech industries and production capacity will be developed.
The GCC MTO will become both the anchor industrial producer of the Karakul FEZ, and Uzbekistan’s largest producer of polymer products based on MTO (Methanol to Olefin) technology, based on the processing of methane natural gas.