Xebec announces order for gas upgrading system in Indonesia

Montreal-based firm Xebec Absorption Inc announced Wednesday that it has received an order for a M-3200 Pressure Swing Adsorption system to upgrade natural gas at a chemical plant located in Cikampek, West Java.

Xebec's PSA was purchased by PT Indo Raya Kimia, a leading producer of carbon disulphide in Asia Pacific. Xebec's PSA will upgrade lower quality natural gas used as a feed stock in the production of CS2, it said.

The M-3200 system can upgrade up to 10 million cubic feet of feed gas per day.

"In many countries in South East Asia, including Indonesia, the quality of commercial natural gas is quite variable, and gas supplies can be contaminated with carbon dioxide as new lower-quality gas wells and fields are brought on stream. Xebec's M-3200 PSA is a compact, reliable and cost effective solution to remove carbon dioxide from sub-quality natural gas, increasing the methane content to meet the stringent specifications required by industrial consumers of natural gas. In this specific application, Xebec's PSA will assist our customer to increase the productivity and reduce the maintenance downtime of their CS2 synthesis process," the Company said.

Commissioning and start-up of the M-3200 PSA is expected to take place in the first quarter of 2011. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. (alex)