© РИА Томск. Карина Сапунова
TOMSK, Dec 5 – RIA Tomsk, Karina Sapunova. Siberian
metanolny chemical company (LLC Sibmetakhim, structure of JSC Vostokgazprom)
plans to increase amounts of release of methanol to 1 million tons per year due
to production upgrade by 2019, the deputy general director of the company for
production Alexander Vdovin reported on Monday.
"As for methanol, we have a purpose today to
increase capacities of production to 1 million tons per year, following the
results of last year we made 850 thousand tons", – Vdovin told.
© РИА Томск. Карина Сапунова
He specified that the program is implemented in two
stages. The first stage of upgrade, which allowed to increase release of
methanol from 2,5 thousand to 2,8 thousand tons of products a day, is complete
this year. "The following stage is to 3 thousand tons per day", –
Vdovin specified.
According to him, the second stage of upgrade shall
come to the end by 2019. He did not specify the amount of investments.
LLC Sibmetakhim makes chemical products (methanol,
formalin, urea formaldehyde concentrate). Initial raw materials is the natural
gas extracted on fields of Vostokgazprom. Consumers of products of Sibmetakhim
are the entities of the Tomsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk regions, Krasnoyarsk Krai
and Kazakhstan.
As it is explained in the company, methanol has
several applications. It is also applied on fields of Gazprom to prevention of
hydrates formation in pipelines.