Air Liquide and Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic), Oman’s national refining company, has signed a long-term agreement for the supply of nitrogen (N2) to the Liwa Plastics Industries Complex (LPIC).
The LPIC is a new plastics production complex which includes the country’s first steam cracker. Orpic is adding to its existing production facilities, in Sohar industrial port area in Oman.
Investing around $20m to build a state-of-the-art N2 production unit with a total capacity of 500 tonnes of N2 per day, Air Liquide will strengthen its leadership position in a key Industrial area to support the growth of its customer Orpic.
Expected to start operations in the first quarter of 2019, the new N2 plant, along with the expansion of Air Liquide’s existing pipeline network, will supply N2 for the customer’s plastics production complex expanding to a capacity of polyethylene and polypropylene of 1.4m tonnes per year. Those plastics components are needed for many applications in derived products from petroleums such as packaging industries as well as other industrial applications.
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