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Methanex Methanex joins XinAo's DME project in Zhangjiagang
Methanex was incorporated under the laws of the province of Alberta on March 11, 1968 and was continued under the Canada Business Corporations Act on March 5, 1992.
Methanex's production facilities:
Chile
3,800
Trinidad 850+1,700
NZ 2,400
Canada 0
Total 8,750
new
Methanex has more than $1 billion invested in its Chilean methanol production facilities, making it one of the largest corporate investors in the country. Its plant site is located in the south of Chile with sales and marketing offices in Santiago.Methanex's extensive methanol production facilities are located at Cabo Negro, near the city of Punta Arenas in the heart of Chile's petroleum and gas producing region. The facilities give Methanex its largest low-cost production hub. Its four methanol plants have a combined annual capacity of 3.8 million tonnes, and produce approximately 10% of the world market. With a workforce (direct and indirect) of approximately 450 people, the strategically situated plant site enables Methanex to ship methanol by tanker to all its major markets in Asia, South and North America, Europe and South Africa.
new
The Methanex Trinidad facility at Point Lisas uses the latest oxygen reforming technology to make methanol. It produces 850,000 tonnes of methanol a year.Methanex has constructed a (US) $400 million methanol production facility adjacent to the existing Methanex Trinidad plant. The Atlas Methanol plant is a joint venture between BP (36.9%) and Methanex (63.1%). The facility began commercial production in mid-2004. Its production capacity of 1.7 million tonnes per year makes Atlas the largest single train methanol plant in the world.
new
Methanex New Zealand owns two methanol plants in the province of Taranaki on the west coast of the North Island: one at Motunui and another in the Waitara Valley. Total production capability of the two plants is 2.4 million tonnes per year
new
Due to the high cost of natural gas in North America, Methanex permanently ceased production at its Kitimat manufacturing plants November 1, 20
Methanex to acquire Terra's Texas methanol business
ICI Agrees Sale of UK Methanol Business
World's largest methanol plant
designed to be ‘clean and
green’
http://www.hcasia.safan.com/mag/hcmar02/t58.pdf
High global standards of environmental excellence are to be incorporated into the construction and operation of the world's largest integrated methanol production complex, which Methanex Australia is proposing to build on the Burrup Peninsula, on the mid-north coast of Western Australia.
2003/3/13 Platts
Methanex puts on hold Australian methanol project
Sept. 29, 2003 Methanex
Methanex Not to Proceed with Methanol Facility in Western
Australia
http://www.methanex.com/investorcentre/newsreleases/ne124.pdf
Methanex Corporation today announced that it will not proceed with the construction of a 1.3 million tonne per year methanol plant located on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia as capital costs for the proposed project have escalated to an unacceptable level.
New Zealand
http://www.methanex.com/corporateinformation/newzealand.htm
Methanex New Zealand owns and operates two methanol plants, Motunui and Waitara, and a port loading facility in the province of Taranaki, near New Plymouth.
Natural gas from two Taranaki fields, Maui and Kapuni, is piped to the plants.
The two plants have a combined annual operating capacity of 2,430,000 tonnes.
The Kitimat methanol facility was completed in 1982. It has an annual capacity of 500,000 tonnes.
Medicine Hat, Alberta 停止中
The Medicine Hat site currently has a production capacity of 470,000 tonnes. However, on August 28, 2001 Methanex shut down this facility for an indeterminate period.
Fortier, Louisiana 閉鎖
The Fortier plant was built in 1994 and has an annual capacity of 570,000 tonnes. The facility was Mothballed in March, 1999 and remains shut down today. In November, 2002 Methanex announced the write-off of this facility.
Manufacturing facilities are located at Cabo Negro, 28 km north of Punta Arenas on the straits of Magellan in the heart of Chile's petroleum and gas producing region.
The Cabo Negro facility is Methanex's largest and lowest cost facility hub, with an annual production capability of 3,000,000 tonnes from three plants.
In November, 2002 Methanex announed the construction of an 840,000 tonne per year expansion of its production hub in Chile.
Platts 2002/11/12
Methanex proceeds with 840kt methanol expansion in Chile
Trinidad
http://www.methanex.com/ourcompany/locations_trinidad.html
The Titan plant at Point Lisas produces 850,000 tonnes of methanol a year.
The new Atlas facility
Methanex is currently building a (US) $400 million methanol production facility adjacent to the existing Titan plant. The Atlas Methanol plant is a joint venture between BP (36.9%) and Methanex (63.1%). The facility is scheduled to begin commercial production in the spring of 2004. Its planned production capacity of 1.7 million tonnes per year will make Atlas the largest methanol plant of its kind in the world.
September 30, 2004 Lurgi
Commissioning of the World’s Largest Lurgi MegaMethanol® Plant
Expectations for the trendsetting Lurgi MegaMethanol® process fully met
http://www.lurgi.com/english/nbsp/index.htmlLurgi AG, Frankfurt am Main, has successfully commissioned the world’s first MegaMethanol plant on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. In less than three years time, Lurgi completed the construction of the world’s largest methanol complex for its customer Atlas Methanol Company Ltd of Trinidad and Tobago. The single-train plant now produces 5,000 tons of methanol/day based on innovative Lurgi technology. Plant operation has already reached full capacity. The test run for guaranteed performance will be conducted soon. With the commissioning of the plant, Lurgi has successfully implemented its proprietary MegaMethanol technology in an industrial application.
This plant marks the beginning of a new generation of plants for the production of methanol from natural gas and associated gas given the fact that the capacity of methanol plants operated with the Lurgi MegaMethanol® technology is basically twice that of all other processes currently available on the market. The current standard capacities of conventional plants only range between 2,000 and up to max. 3,000 tons of methanol per day. The synthesis gas production unit (MegaSyn®), too, is the largest single-train facility in the world. Its autothermal reactor, for example, was equipped with a new burner system to be able to convert natural gas and around 80,000 Nm3 of oxygen per hour to 530,000 Nm3 of dry synthesis gas. This new technology, which showed excellent results during plant operation, represents the technology of the future, not only for methanol generation but also for gas-to-liquid (GTL) and gas-to-chemicals (GTC®) complexes.
Methanex 大株主 Novaが全持株売却 2003/5/21
Nova Chemicals 46.9 million shares, or 37% of the outstanding shares.
37.9 million shares ----- 売却
9.0 million shares ----- Methanexが買い入れ消却
2003/5/21 Methanex Corporation
Methanex corporation announces
secondary offering of its common shares
http://www.methanex.com/investorcentre/newsreleases/ne116b.pdf
Methanex Corporation and its largest shareholder, NOVA, have entered into an agreement with a syndicate of underwriters in connection with a secondary offering of 37,946,876 of the Company’s common shares owned by NOVA.
2003/5/21 Methanex Corporation
Methanex seeks shareholder approval to participate in exit of
Nova Chemicals
http://www.methanex.com/investorcentre/newsreleases/ne116.pdf
Methanex Corporation announced today that it has agreed to purchase 9.0 million of its common shares from NOVA Chemicals Corporation (NOVA). Currently, NOVA is Methanex’s largest shareholder, holding 46.9 million shares, or 37% of the outstanding shares.
NOVA will have no remaining equity interest in Methanex.
METHANEX ACQUIRES ADDITIONAL
PRODUCTION FLEXIBILITY
Methanex Corporation has entered into an agreement with Terra
Industries to
acquire all of Terra's methanol customer
contracts relating to its 700,000 tonne per year methanol
facility located in Beaumont, Texas. In addition, Methanex will acquire
certain production rights to the facility and exclusive rights to
all methanol produced at the facility until the end of 2008. The
agreement will commence following the close of business (Central
Standard Time) on December 31, 2003 and lump-sum consideration
paid by Methanex for this transaction will be US$25 million.
Bruce Aitken, President and COO of Methanex commented, “This transaction demonstrates our
continued leadership in the methanol industry. Over the next
twelve months we expect to add two important increments of
low-cost capacity in Trinidad and Chile, and we need maximum
flexibility as we bring this new capacity to market.”
Gerry Duffy, Methanex's Senior Vice
President, Global Marketing & Logistics added, “This new arrangement with Terra, and the
transaction with Lyondell announced in December 2002, will
provide our global supply chain with valuable flexibility and an
even broader customer base."
Methanex is the world's largest producer and marketer of
methanol. Methanex shares are listed for trading on the Toronto
Stock Exchange in Canada under the trading symbol “MX” and
on the Nasdaq National Market in the United States under the
trading symbol “MEOH.”
Methanex can be visited online at www.methanex.com.
Methanex signs 10-year Chilean natural gas supply agreement
Methanex Corp reached a long-term
natural gas supply agreement which will supply the company's
Chilean methanol production facility, the company said Wednesday.
Methanex signed a memorandum of understanding with GeoPark
Holdings Ltd that includes a 10-year gas supply and purchase
commitment from GeoPark's Fell Block in southern Chile beginning
May 2007. The agreement provides incentives for volume of up to
100,000 Mcf/d of natural gas and includes provisions for the
financing of development operations and the potential joint
acquisition of new hydrocarbon blocks in Chile. The agreement is
subject to a final contract and requires Chilean government
approvals.
Methanex's methanol production facility in Chile has the capacity
to produce 3.8 million mt/year, or approximately 10% of
the world's methanol
supply, the company said.
Terra to Mothball Beaumont
Methanol Facility
http://www.terraindustries.com/latest/corp_activities/04-11/beaumont.pdf
Terra Industries Inc. announced today that, at the request of Methanex Corporation and under the terms of an agreement between the two companies, it will cease production at its Beaumont, Texas, methanol manufacturing facility on Dec. 1, 2004, and mothball the plant for an indefinite period. Terra sold its sales contracts and rights to the full output of the Beaumont plant to Methanex for five years ending Dec. 31, 2008. Under the terms of that agreement, Terra received a lump-sum payment of $25 million and shares in a percentage of cash gross profits generated from Beaumont sales. The agreement gives Methanex the right to cease production at the Beaumont facility and also stipulates that, beginning two years from the date of the shutdown, Terra has the option to terminate the agreement at a cost of approximately $417,000 per month remaining on the contract.
The Beaumont facility has annual production capacity of 225 million gallons of methanol and 255,000 tons of ammonia. The ammonia loop has historically used hydrogen produced by the methanol plant in its manufacturing process. Terra is evaluating the feasibility of alternative sources of hydrogen for the ammonia loop.
2004/9/9 Asia Chemical Weekly 日経 日本のメタノール
Chinese's NDRC give nod to world scale methanol project 重慶市
China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has approved the construction of an 850 000 tonne/year methanol project which planned by Mitsubishi Gas Chemical (MGC) and a Chinese partner in Chongqing city in southwest China.
The project will be located in Changshou Chemical Park of Chongqing city. The Chinese local partner is Chongqing Chemical & Pharmaceutical Holding Group(重慶化醫集團). Two partners had agreed to form a joint venture to build the project in the first half of 2005; and the project is scheduled to come onstream in the first half of 2007.
This project would be the biggest methanol facility in China. MGC will take a 51% stake in the project, while Chongqing Chemical will take the rest of the shares. The total cost of this project would be 200 million US Dollars (1.65 billion Yuan). Amid of them, the cost for engineering construction and the inputs of key equipments would be about 178 million US Dollars (1.47 billion Yuan).
When the 850 000 tonne/year methanol project completed, the products will be sold in the market of southwest China, and even the Yangtze delta area and the Pearl River delta area. Also, in the next stage, Chongqing Chemical-Pharma Holding and MGC will negotiate to broaden the fields of cooperation, to jointly produce the value-added downstream products of methanol.
The partners had chosen to locate the project in Chongqing because it was rich in natural gas feedstock.
According to the data from China Customs, China imported about 1520kt methanol in 2001, and about 1800kt in 2002, and about 1400kt in 2003.
Chongqing Chemical & Pharmaceutical Holding Group is a large state-owned conglomerate, which founded in August 2000 by Chongqing Municipal Government. For more information see the website. http://www.hykg.com/english
2004年09月09日 Chemnet Tokyo
中国政府、三菱ガスの世界規模メタノール計画を承認
重慶に年産85万トン 07年上半期スタートへ中国・国家発展改革委員会(NDRC)は、三菱ガス化学と中国のパートナーの重慶での85万トンのメタノール計画を承認した。提携相手は重慶化医集団。両社は2005年上半期にJVを設立し、2007年上半期のスタートを予定している。（上海発＝特約）
計画は中国最大のメタノール設備で、三菱ガス化学が51%、相手が残りを引き取る。建設費は2億ドル。将来的には両社は川下製品の共同生産も考えるとみられる。重慶を選んだのは原料の天然ガスが豊富なためとしている。
輸入統計では中国は2002年に180万トン、2003年に140万トンのメタノールを輸入している。重慶化医集団は2000年8月に重慶市当局により設立された。なお、三菱ガス化学では、同計画について「近く正式発表する予定だ」といっている。
日本経済新聞 2004/9/14 Chinese's
NDRC give nod to the project
中国最大、メタノール合弁 三菱ガス化学、重慶に
年産８５万トン、２００８年稼働
三菱ガス化学は合成繊維や塗料の基礎原料となるメタノールで中国最大となるプラントを重慶市に建設する。現地の国営化学メーカー、重慶化医（重慶市）と合弁で２００８年の稼働を目指す。年産能力は８５万トンで総投資額は約２２０億円。
合弁会社は２００５年度をメドに設立。製造と販売を手掛け、三菱ガス化学が５１％、重慶化医が４９％を出資する。生産したメタノールはほぼ全量を重慶周辺や上海市など沿岸部の工業地帯を中心に中国市場向けに供給する。重慶化医グループは中国大手の化学品製造・販売会社で年間売上高は約１千億円。
国内石化大手 分野絞り対中投資
中国投資に慎重だった日本の石油化学産業が現地での生産計画を相次いで打ち出している。欧米大手が来年以降大型エチレンプラントを立ち上げるなか「このままでは中国市場での競争力低下は必至」（日本化学工業協会）との危機感を強めているからだ。
三井化学が上海で生産するのは光ディスクや自動車部品向けに需要増が見込めるポリカーボネート樹脂原料。三菱レイヨンは英蘭ロイヤル・ダッチ・シェルが広東省恵州市で建設中の石化コンビナート内で、液晶パネルなどに使うアクリル樹脂原料を生産する。
メタノールの合弁生産に乗り出す三菱ガス化学や塩化ビニール樹脂生産を進める東ソーは、欧米勢がまだ大規模な現地生産計画を打ち出していない製品分野を攻める。
MGC kicks off methanol
project in Chongqing
On Dec.26, 2007, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical (MGC) and Chongqing
Chemical & Pharmaceutical Holding Group (CCPHG) held a
groundbreaking ceremony for their jv methanol project in
Changshou Chemical Park of Chongqing.
KingBoard starts commercial operation for methanol project in Chongqing
With total investment of
USD 287.7 million (RMB 2.1 billion), the methanol project is a
51:49 jv between MGC and CCPHG, which is the largest natural gas
based methanol project in China. According to the announcement,
the recycle ratio of waste water of this project will reach
97.8%, the CO2 will be recycled for methanol production, and the
energy consumption will be lower 11% than the industrial average
methanol plants in China.
It will have nameplate capacity of 850,000 ton/year, while
according to the source from CCPHG, after the startup of this
project, the real max capacity could reach 1 million ton/year.
The project is scheduled to start up by H2 of 2010.
China's NDRC has published a new Policy of Natural Gas
Utilization, ban the new planned or proposed methanol projects
from natural gas since Aug. 30, 2007, but the MGC's project is
not impacted as it is approved by government and the gas supply
contract is signed earlier.
2004年9月に国家発展改革委員会(NDRC)からFS作業実施の承認を得て、FSを続けていた。
重慶化医集団によると、2007年7月5日に事業実施の承認を取得した。JVの詳細については明らかにされていない。
立地：
参考 重慶ケミカルパークのホームページ
http://www.cccip.cn/newEbiz1/EbizPortalFG/portal/html/InfoContent.html?InfoContent150_action=show&InfoPublish_InfoID=c373e916afcc644d8ffa5931504cb524
定礎式写真
2005/10/06 三菱ガス化学
中国南京におけるメタノール誘導品事業について
http://www.mgc.co.jp/news/2005/051006.html
三菱ガス化学株式会社（本社：東京都千代田区、社長：小高英紀）は、中国南京市郊外の南京化学工業園区内におけるメタノール誘導品事業化計画を決定いたしました。
第一期計画は、伊藤忠商事株式会社（本社：東京都港区、社長：小林栄三）及び伊藤忠ケミカルフロンティア株式会社（本社：東京都港区、社長：佐藤潤）と合弁会社を設立し、南京化学工業園区内に約２０万ｍ２の土地を確保して、ジメチルアミン、ジメチルホルムアミド及びジメチルアセトアミドの生産設備を建設するもので、２００７年末の稼動を予定しております。
更に第二期計画として、トリメチロールプロパンの生産も検討しており、その後も順次メタノール誘導品を展開する予定です。
南京化学工業園区は、南京市郊外に位置する中国有数の化学工業地域であり、揚子江を利用した大型船舶によるメタノール輸送が可能であること、また周辺の大規模石油化学プラントからアンモニア、ＣＯなどの原料を入手することが容易であることから、メタノール誘導品事業の進出先としてこの地区を選定いたしました。
当社は、メタノール事業をコア事業の一つとして位置づけ、サウジアラビア、ベネズエラ、ブルネイ及び中国重慶においてメタノールプラントの増設・新設計画を進めておりますが、あわせて化学製品の大消費地である中国で誘導品事業を展開することで、メタノール事業の一層強化・拡大を図ってまいります。
別紙
（合弁会社の概要）
１．社 名 （未定） →Lingtian (Nanjing) Fine Chemical
Company Ltd.
２．住 所
中華人民共和国江蘇省南京市六合区南京化学工業園区２Ｂ−７−３
３．資本金 １，９０１万米ドル
４．出資比率 三菱ガス化学 ８５．１％
伊藤忠ケミカルフロンティア
１０．０％
伊藤忠商事 ４．９％
５．事業内容
ジメチルアミン、ジメチルホルムアミド及びジメチルアセトアミドの製造・販売
2006/4/18 China Chemical
Reporter
Methanol
Derivatives Project Starts Construction in Nanjing
Jointly invested by
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Corporation (MGC), Itochu Chemical
Frontier Corporation and Itochu Corporation of Japan, the
methanol derivatives project of Lingtian
(Nanjing) Fine Chemical Company Ltd. started construction in Nanjing
Chemical Industrial Park of Jiangsu province on April 13th, 2006.
MGC will hold 85.1% equity in the joint venture, and Itochu
Chemical Frontier Corp. 10%, Itochu Corp. 4.9%. Methanol produced
by MGC in Saudi Arabia will be delivered to Nanjing as raw
materials. Other raw materials will be supplied by the local
companies in Nanjing. With a total investment of around US$200
million, this project can produce many kinds of methanol
derivative products with natural gas as the raw material by
adopting advanced technologies from MGC.
With a total
investment of US$54 million, this first phase of the project will
start production in October 2007, which includes some methanol
downstream products such as 40 000t/a N, N-dimethyl foramide
(DMF), 10 000t/a dimethyl acetylamide (DMAC). After the
completion of the DMF and DMAC projects, the capacity of both
products will be the largest in China and account 20% of the
national total respectively.
平成19年4月12日
三菱ガス化学/伊藤忠商事
ブルネイ・ダルサラーム国におけるメタノール事業について
三菱ガス化学株式会社（本社：東京都千代田区、以下「MGC」という）、伊藤忠商事株式会社（本社：東京都港区、以下「伊藤忠」という）およびBrunei
National Petroleum Company(本社：ブルネイ・ダルサラーム国バンダル・スリ・ブガワン。以下「PetroulemBRUNEI」という)は、合弁会社であるBrunei
Methanol Company （以下、「BMC」という）において、年産85万トンのメタノール事業を行うことといたしました。建設資金は約４億ドルであり、2009年末の完工および2010年第2四半期の商業運転開始を予定しております。
（合弁事業の概要）
１． 出資比率 MGC ５０％
PB Petrochemical ２５％
※ PetroulemBRUNEIの関連会社
伊藤忠 ２５％
２． 生産能力
日産２，５００トン（年産８５０，０００トン）
３． 生産技術 三菱（MGC／MHI）メタノールプロセス
※ MGCと三菱重工業株式会社が共同保有するプロセス技術
４． 事業立地 ブルネイ・ダルサラーム国
スンガイ・リアング工業地区
５． 天然ガス供給者 Brunei Shell Petroleum Company Sdn
Bhd（BSP）
６． 製品引取権者 MGC
７． 建設完了時期 ２００９年第４四半期
８．商業生産開始 ２０１０年第２四半期
９．資金調達方法
国際協力銀行を中心とするプロジェクトファイナンス（予定）
１０．従業員数 約１６０名（現地採用従業員）
