China: Oxygen and Nitrogen Supply
Praxair Announces Start-Up of Air Separation Plants at Cnooc's Petrochemical Complex
| Editor: Alexander Stark
Praxair has started up new air separation plants in Southern China Petrochemical Park (sample image)
(Source: Praxair)
Praxair has started up two new air separation plants to supply China National Offshore Oil Corporation (Cnooc).
Danbury/USA — The two plants, each with 2,400-tons-per-day of oxygen capacity, are supplying on-site oxygen and nitrogen to support the company’s refinery expansion and related downstream chemical production.
With the start-up of the two new plants, the engineering company is now operating a 5,600-ton-per-day production complex, made up of four air separation units. These units are serving a total of nine customers in the Huizhou Daya Bay Chemical Industrial Park, located in Huizhou, Guangdong, China, including the CNOOC and Shell petrochemical complex.
