BOC Ltd is enjoying a fruitful first half of 2011 in clean energy projects, having opened Australia’s first Micro-LNG plant in Westbury, Tasmania and also secured a long-term gas supply contract with Perdaman Chemicals & Fertilisers (PCF).
BOC Ltd announced that it had secured a long-term industrial gas supply contract to the value of an estimated AUS$1bn with PCF in March. The latter is planning to utilise clean energy technology to enrich the world’s crops with urea.
Under the contract, BOC will supply nitrogen and oxygen over a 20-year period with an additional five-year option to the Perdaman project, which will transform sub-bituminous coal into urea using innovative and clean coal gasification technology.
Two BOC air separation plants will produce approximately 4,800 tonnes of oxygen per day and around 7,000 tonnes of nitrogen per day, more than doubling the current Australian and New Zealand total industry supply of air gases. The ‘Collie’ ASU project will take three years to complete and is expected to start construction in the third quarter of 2011 – post the conclusion of Perdaman’s project financing.
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