German technology company The Linde Group (Linde) announced Monday that it will build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Malaysia under a new contract with Malasia LNG Sdn. Bhd., a subsidiary of the national oil and gas company PETRONAS, Ship & Bunker reports.
The plant, with a maximum capacity of 1,840 tonnes of LNG per day, will be part of the Bintulu LNG complex in Sarawak, East Malaysia, and will be used to re-liquefy boil-off gases from LNG storage and ship-loading. It new plant is expected to begin operations at the end of 2014.
Linde, which also recently announced that it would build an LNG terminal in Sweden, said it will use a variation on its proprietary LNG process and core cryogenic heat exchanger to handle technical specifications including accommodating large variations in nitrogen content, flow rate, and temperature.
"This is the latest in a series of mid-scale LNG projects for Linde with particularly demanding technical features," said Aldo Belloni, a member of the Linde Executive Board.
"We came off as winners in a highly competitive bidding process, reaffirming our design and engineering expertise and cost competitiveness in the growing natural gas liquefaction market."
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