Air Products JV outfit inks agreement to build an air separation unit for PetroChina

23-Sep-09

An Air Products ‘s joint venture company based in Sichuan has inked an agreement to build an air separation unit (ASU) for PetroChina Co Ltd. to be on-stream in late 2011. The ASU will supply oxygen and nitrogen to PetroChina's main refinery and ethylene complex in Sichuan, as well as produce liquid products for Air Products' merchant gases customers in the Chengdu area. The new ASU will be designed and built primarily by Air Products' engineering center in Shanghai and its cryogenic manufacturing center in Caojing, near Shanghai. Chengdu Air and Gas Products Co. Ltd. is a JV between Air Products' wholly-owned subsidiary, Prodair Corporation, and PetroChina Sichuan Petrochemical Co. Ltd.( a JV between PetroChina and Chengdu government.