LUKOIL starts chlorine and caustic soda production at KARPATNEFTEKHIM , LUKOIL
Release Date: 2010-11-11
Vagit Alekperov, LUKOIL President, and Viktor Yanukovich, President of Ukraine, participated today in the opening ceremony of a chlorine and caustic soda production facility at Karpatneftekhim, a LUKOIL Group enterprise, in Kalush, Ukraine.
The new unit will allow LUKOIL produce 200,000 tons of commercial caustic soda and about 180,000 tons of gaseous chlorine annually through electromembrane process introduced by UHDE, a German engineering company.
Production of gaseous chlorine will fully satisfy Karpatneftekhim’s demand for this kind of raw material used to produce suspended polyvinyl chloride, production of which is scheduled for December 2010.
Chlorine and caustic soda production unit will also make gaseous hydrogen that will be used on-site for olefine production.
The investments in the construction project of the chlorine and caustic soda production unit reached over USD 150 million. The construction of the new production unit took about two years.
“The new chemical production unit will allow us produce the products compliant with global quality standards, to considerably enhance our performance efficiency, reduce the consumption of energy resources 1.5-fold and to secure high technological and environmental safety standards of the production,”, said Vagit Alekperov, LUKOIL President.
As previously reported, Karpatneftekhim commissioned an ethylene and polyethylene production unit with an annual capacity of, respectively, 250,000 and 100,000 tons, in August 2010.
| Type: | NORMAL |
| Company: | LUKOIL |
| Country: | Russian Federation |