Contract signed for the first coal-to-natural gas project funded by a private enterprise

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Contract signed for the first private-sector-funded coal-to-natural gas project / Author/Source: Huahua Network – Coal Chemical Industry / Date: 2018-05-18 / Views: 30. Recently, the contract signing ceremony for the second phase of the coal-to-natural gas project undertaken by Inner Mongolia HuiNeng Coal Chemical Co., Ltd., along with the project kickoff meeting, were held at Hualu Engineering Technology Co., Ltd. Han Bing, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of Hualu Technology, Liu Jianqiang, General Manager of Inner Mongolia HuiNeng Coal Chemical Co., Ltd., and others attended the signing ceremony. The coal-to-natural gas project of Inner Mongolia HuiNeng Coal Chemical Co., Ltd. represents a breakthrough for Hualu Technology in the field of coal-to-natural gas conversion; the project is scheduled to be completed and put into operation on July 1, 2021. The coal-to-natural gas project of Inner Mongolia HuiNeng Coal Chemical Co., Ltd. is one of the first coal-to-gas demonstration projects to be approved in China, and it is also the first coal-to-natural gas project funded and constructed by a private enterprise. In November 2014, the first phase of HuiNeng’s project for producing 2 billion cubic meters of coal-based natural gas and its liquefied form per year was successfully commissioned, with all processes operational and qualified products generated. The HuiNeng Coal Chemical Project is located in the Shengyuan Coal Chemical Base in Yijinhuoluo Banner, Ordos City. The project uses coal as a raw material to produce synthetic natural gas and liquefied natural gas. The project is divided into two phases: Phase 1 requires an investment of around 7 billion yuan, and all 400 million cubic meters of natural gas will be liquefied ； Upon completion of the second phase, the total capacity of the project will be 2 billion standard cubic meters of coal-derived natural gas and 1.2 billion standard cubic meters of liquefied natural gas per year. In 2007, HuiNeng Group began the preliminary work for a project to produce 1.6 billion cubic meters of coal-to-natural gas per year. In 2008, HuiNeng Group completed the project planning and submitted it to the **National Development and Reform Commission for approval. In December 2009, the **National Development and Reform Commission approved HuiNeng Group’s project to produce 1.6 billion cubic meters of coal-to-natural gas per year. This is the **first coal-to-natural gas project invested in by a private enterprise that has been approved by the National Development and Reform Commission (earlier than the Qinghua and Guanghui projects); it is also the second large-scale coal-to-natural gas project officially approved by the commission, following the 4 billion cubic meters per year coal-to-natural gas project in Keshiketeng Banner, Inner Mongolia, operated by Datang.** In April 2010, the HuiNeng coal-to-natural gas project officially commenced construction. In May 2014, Phase 1 entered the final stage, with single-unit testing beginning. On November 17, 2014, a single batch feeding was successful, the entire process was completed, and qualified products were produced