The Italian company SIAD assisted with the technologies.
Elme Messer Gaas has signed a contract with Enefit to build a new plant producing oxygen, nitrogen, and argon in Estonia. The construction cost is estimated at 35 million euros.
The company already has one plant in Auvere that produces liquid gases – nitrogen, oxygen, and argon. It was built 13 years ago when Eesti Energia Õlitööstus opened a new Enefit-280 oil plant in Auvere. Nitrogen is needed for oil production from shale, and to obtain it, a gas processing plant was required. The Italian company SIAD assisted with the technologies. The resources for production are the same natural air, electricity, and water. The gaseous nitrogen produced is transported via pipeline to the neighboring oil plant. In liquefied form, oxygen, nitrogen, and argon are collected in bulk tanks and transported by specialized tank trucks.
"Elme Messer Gaas AS operates in the Baltic countries based on its own production capacities, strictly adhering to all applicable laws, sanctions regimes, and regulatory restrictions," insists Elme Messer Gaas director Eduard Virkunen. "We do not take anything from Russia," repeated Igor Berman, a member of the board of Elme Messer Gaas.
The new air separation plant will have greater capacity, "twice as powerful as today," explained Igor Berman. "The main task of this plant is to supply gaseous nitrogen for the Enefit-2 production. The second task is to produce liquid gases nitrogen, argon, and oxygen. We will produce high-purity oxygen – this is a fundamental difference of the new plant. And we will package and sell – everything that can be done with this – in the markets of the Baltics and partially Finland," he says. According to him, 99% of the buyers will be enterprises – medical institutions, metallurgical industries where oxygen is used for metal processing and welding; food industry, electronics.
