Project Profile
Value: US$10 billion
Location:China, Inner Mongolia
Capacity: Coal washing ability - 6mt/y, coking capacity - 2.4 mt/y and an annual capacity of producing 4.8mt of methanol and 30,000 tonnes of tar
Order Year: 2002
Construction Started: 2003
Startup Year: First phase 2009, Second phase 2010
The Ganqimaodu Coal to Liquid Project (Shenhua) is located in Inner Mongolia, China. The Shenhua Group Corporation, which is one of the world’s largest coal companies, began to construct the world’s first commercial direct coal liquefaction plant in 2003, at a cost of US$3.2 billion. China Shenhua Coal Liquefaction Co Ltd (CSCLCL) is the operating company for the plant. The first and second phase of the facility opened in July 2009 and 2010 respectively. The facility has three reactor trains and produces 6m tons of oil products per year.
The first train, which entered trial production in July 2009, converts 3.45m tonnes of coal into a million tonnes of oil products (22,000bbl per day of liquid fuel). The coal processing project Ganqimaodu Customs Processing Park has a coal washing ability of 6 million tonnes a year, coking capacity of 2.4 million tonnes a year and an annual capacity of producing 4.8 million tonnes of methanol and 30,000 tonnes of tar.
In May 2008 Siemens Energy supplied the first two of an order of five coal gasifiers to Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group Co Ltd (SNCG). The new plant, with its five gasifiers, has an hourly production capacity of about 540,000 cubic metres of syngas, which is converted in a series of downstream processes to polypropylene plastic. The initial trial of this facility for 300 hours, was successfully completed in December 2008. Completion of the second trial in July 2009 saw the launch of the facility. They are capable of gasifying up to 2,000t of coal daily.
Operator:
Shenhua Group: Operator with 100% interest