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Ningxia Hanas LNG Plant

Mid-scale LNG to help meet China’s growing demand

for clean energy
 Ningxia Hanas
The largest LNG facility of its kind in China

In 2011, Technip is delivering its first LNG plant in China.

Ningxia Hanas LNG Project is a mid-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant that is being
built in Yinchuan, China. It will have two trains with a total capacity of 800,000 tonnes
per year, based on a Single Mixed Refrigerant (SMR*) liquefaction process.
The LNG will be distributed to
the Chinese market to help
meet the growing demand for
clean energy.
Technip’s operating centres in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and
Shanghai (China) are executing the contract. It is the first
LNG plant to be designed and built by Technip in the
Asia-Pacific Region. It represents a breakthrough into the
mid-scale LNG market and new opportunities for Technip.

Shizuishan

Yinchuan Technip’s scope of work

Inner Mongolia
For the Ningxia Hanas plant, Technip is providing the
Lingwu
Wuzhong following services: basic and detailed Engineering, supply
of main equipment, procurement services, procurement,
Zhongwei
Ningxia construction management services for facilities for natural
Gantang
Tianshuibu
gas pre-treatment, liquefaction, LNG storage and loading,
utilities, offsites, buildings and other infrastructure.
Qiying
Gansu Sanying

Guyuan
Facility characteristics
Xiji
2 LNG trains x 400,000 tpa
Pre-treatment Units include:
Feed gas recompression
Acid Gas Removal Unit
Dehydration
Client: Ningxia Hanas New Energy Group Heavy ends removal
Natural Gas Co. Ltd Mercury removal unit

Location: Yinchuan, Ningxia, P. R China Air Products SMR* liquefaction process

Contract type: Lump sum for EPCM services
and equipment supply. Reimbursable for
technical services
Contract award: Q2 2009
Contract completion: Q4 2011
1 x 50,000 m3 LNG storage tank
LNG Truck loading
BOG recompression
Utilities, offsites and general facilities

* Air Product’s Single Mixed Refrigerant (SMR) liquefaction process

2 Ningxia Hanas LNG Plant

Project team LNG tank: pouring of the ring beam Electrical substation and main pipe racks of
the two LNG trains

An efficient and highly engineered

e-LNG plant
Technip developed the plant design from scratch, starting Our Chinese entity has realised contracts both offshore and
from the duty specification provided by the client in the onshore, in the oil and gas as well as chemical industries.
ITB, through to detailed engineering that included a full
The main challenges of the Hanas project were:
3D model of the plant produced in Technip Shanghai.
Working with Air Products the feed gas is compressed to Weather windows, with extremely low temperatures in
reduce the liquefaction overall power requirement. The winter, had to be factored into the overall construction
mixed refrigerant composition was determined using schedule.
components readily available in China. The ITB stipulated For this fast-track project awarded in May 2009, LNG tank
electrical motor drivers for the MR compressor. Technip's foundation works had to be completed by the end of
design uses electrically driven two stage centrifugal 2009.
machines with cost effective fixed speed motors while
Delivery time of some major equipment to meet
compressor speed variation is provided by hydraulic
installation schedule.
couplings. As fuel gas demand is low, all boil off gas from
the storage tanks and truck loading stations is recycled for The presence of existing water wells and underground
reliquefaction thus avoiding wasteful flaring. pipelines on the project precinct had to be studied
carefully
The full containment LNG tank was designed taking into
account the seismicity of the region. Transportation limitations: the relatively remote inland
site provided a challenge for the transportation of the
Extensive dynamic simulations of the plant have been
larger equipment items including the cryogenic
done to verify the design including during start-up and
exchangers. Technip planned for this right from the start
other transient states. The models have also enabled the
as part of basic engineering with separation of large items
reaction of the process controls to changes in weather
into manageable packages and reassembly on site.
condition and feed gas to be evaluated.
Pressurised cryogenic fluids including LNG are present
An emulated operator training simulator is being provided
high in the structure. Steel structures may collapse in the
to train all newly hired operators off line. This will ensure a
unlikely event of leakage so a number of solutions from
smooth start up with minimal loss of production due to
Technip's other LNG projects were examined before
lack of familiarity with the plant.
fixing the protection strategy. Finally foam glass
protection of main carbon steel members was selected
An Asia-Pacific Region project led from as erection is convenient and the price is acceptable.
our Kuala Lumpur office
In the early stages the Hanas project was led from Kuala
Lumpur, Technip's regional hub, and later transferred to our
Shanghai office in China for execution. Technip has been
present in China for the past 30 years. The engineering and
services centre in Shanghai was set up in 1996.

Ningxia Hanas LNG Plant 3

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