American entrepreneurs are interested in implementing a project to establish the production of needle coke, and based on it, graphite electrodes at the Turkmenbashi complex of oil refineries, reports Orient.tm.
This was stated by the head of the board of Westport Trading Europe Limited Nikolay Yurchenko, who is in Turkmenistan as part of a visit by representatives of the US business circles, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reports.
The basic engineering developments have already been discussed and agreed with the specialists of the TCOR, and the implementation of production based on the facilities of the complex will take place in the shortest possible time.
The company also presented a project for the construction of a new distillation unit for a mixture of gas condensate and oil with a capacity of 1 million tons at the Seydi oil refinery.
At the moment, graphite is actively used in the nuclear, metallurgical, chemical and space industries. The number of its suppliers on the market is limited. In view of the decline in its global output, Turkmenistan has great opportunities in this area.
The head of the company also focused on environmental protection technologies, noting the possibility of a wide production of hydrogen in Turkmenistan. Hydrogen is considered an alternative energy source, one of the most promising types of fuel.
CentralasianLIGHT.org
April 6, 2023