OC begins commercial production at Natgasoline methanol facility

Orascom Construction (OC) has begun commercial production at Natgasoline, the largest methanol production facility in the US, the company said in a statement on Wednesday (pdf). The production facility, located in Beaumont, Texas, will have a capacity of up to 1.8 mn tonnes per annum. Our friends at OC had announced in April that they had reached mechanical completion at the facility. The main contractor for the project was Orascom Engineering & Construction USA.