Yemen LNG Company Award Air Products Contract

Air Products has received an order for two main cryogenic heat exchangers from Yemen LNG Company Ltd. for two liquefied natural gas process trains to be built in Bal-Haf, Republic of Yemen. The two heat exchangers will be part of Yemen's first-ever LNG plant.

"Air Products will provide its proprietary propane pre-cooled mixed refrigerant liquefaction process technology with the Split MRTM refrigeration equipment configuration, and an MCR(R) main cryogenic heat exchanger for each train of the facility," said Mark Modjeska, director, LNG for Air Products. The two LNG trains will have a total capacity of 6.7 million metric tons per year of LNG. The target for Train 1 start-up is end of 2008, with Train 2 coming on line approximately 5 months later.

The shareholders of Yemen LNG Company Ltd. are -
Total (42.90%)
Yemen Gas Company (23.10%)
Hunt Oil Company (18%)
SK Corporation (10%)
Hyundai Corporation (6%)

A vast majority of the total worldwide baseload LNG production capacity is produced with Air Products' technology.

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Posted 21/09/05

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