Vietnam Oil & Gas Group (PetroVietnam) affiliate Binh Son Refining & Petrochemical JSC (BSR)—formerly Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Co. Ltd.—has let a contract to a subsidiary of Maire SPA’s Rome-based NextChem SPA for delivery of a new hydrogen production unit (HPU) to be installed at the operator’s 6.5-million tonne/year (tpy) refinery in the Dung Quat Economic Zone of Binh Tri Commune in Binh Son District, Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam.
As part of the contract, NextChem’s KT-Kinetics Technology SPA (KT Tech) will provide the process design package (PDP) and licensing of its proprietary NX Reform hydrogen technology for the grassroots HPU, which will be equipped to produce 22,676 cu m/hr of hydrogen, Maire said in a release.
Alongside technology licensing and the PDP for the project, the contract also includes the supply of KT Tech’s proprietary equipment for the steam-methane reforming process upon the start of the new unit’s construction, according to the service provider.
Based on steam-methane reforming methods and incorporating carbon dioxide-capture technology, implementation of NX Reform technology in the proposed HPU will enable BSR to produce hydrogen with a lower carbon footprint and higher operational efficiency, as well as provide the operator production adaptability via increased flexibility in terms of feedstock and capacity, Maire said.
