21 February 2017
DETAILS
has signed a 15-year agreement to supply
Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE)
with carbon monoxide, as well as oxygen and nitrogen,
in the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Praxair will deliver high-purity carbon monoxide
to Celanese from a new, state-of-the-art
carbon monoxide and hydrogen plant
that will be built, owned and operated by Praxair.
The company will also expand
its extensive hydrogen pipeline network
to enable the supply of 80 million cubic feet per day
of co-produced hydrogen
to meet the requirements of other new customers
along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Additionally, Praxair will build
a new air separation unit
on its nitrogen and oxygen pipeline network
that will provide the industrial gases
required by Celanese.
These plants and pipeline expansions
require a combined investment
of more than $300 million
and further strengthen Praxair’s production network,
benefitting all customers along
its U.S. Gulf Coast pipeline systems.
The new facilities and pipeline assets
will begin operations in the year 2020
to meet Celanese’s long-term industrial gas demands
and those of other new customers.
Praxair continues to evaluate sites
for these new plants and supporting infrastructure.
Praxair’s pipeline systems are currently supported
by multiple hydrogen and air separation plants
and product storage capabilities,
including the company’s 2.5 billion-cubic-foot,
high-purity hydrogen storage cavern.
Together with the previously announced
Geismar, Louisiana, project that will start up
in the second half of 2018,
Praxair’s carbon monoxide capacity
along the U.S. Gulf Coast will more than double.
The increased demand for industrial gases
in the region results from
the availability of abundant, low-cost shale gas in the U.S.
Jason Stewart
WWW.CHEMWINFO.COM BY KHUN PHICHAI
