Sungai Liang

Sungai Liang is a village and industrial area in Belait District, Brunei, in the mukim (subdistrict) of Liang. The current acting village head (Malay: ketua kampung) is Ibrahim bin Dian.[1][2] It is currently home to the country's methanol plant. The postcode for Sungai Liang is KC1135.[3]

Sungai Liang
Village
Location in Brunei
Coordinates: 4°40′39″N 114°29′45″E
CountryBrunei
DistrictBelait
MukimLiang
Government
 • Village headIbrahim Dian
Postcode
KC1135

Name

The official Malay name for Sungai Liang is Kampung Sungai Liang ("kampung" is sometimes spelt as "kampong', which literally means 'Sungai Liang Village'.

Geography

Sungai Liang is officially a village, the third- and lowest-level administrative division of Brunei. It is one of the subdivisions of Liang, a mukim or subdistrict in Belait District.[4]

Industry

Sungai Liang Industrial Park, commonly known as SPARK, is a 271-hectare (670-acre) site which has been dedicated by the government to be developed as an industrial area for petrochemical industry, taking advantage of its location as near to the oil and gas industry in the district. It is currently home to a methanol plant which is owned by the Brunei Methanol Company which is a joint-venture between Petroleum Brunei, a state-owned oil and gas company, and two Japanese companies namely Mitsubishi Gas Chemical and Itochu.[5] It started its first shipment in 2010 and has since produced 850,000-tonne of methanol annually.[5][6]

There will also be a demo hydrogenation plant in the area; it is currently in construction and expected to be completed by 2019.[7] It is developed by AHEAD, a Japanese consortium, and is aimed to produce 210 tonnes of liquefied hydrogen, in which the gas will be obtained from the nearby Brunei LNG plant.[8] The product will be exported for the Japanese domestic market; the first batch is expected to be utilised as fuel for 3,000 cars used during the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in 2020.[7][9]

A fertilizer plant is also planned to be built in the site; the plant is developed by the German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp and expected to operate by 2021.[10][11][12][13]

Healthcare

Sungai Liang Health Centre is a government community health centre which provides primary healthcare to the residents of Sungai Liang as well as those residing in the mukim of Liang. It also has an emergency ambulance service.[14]

Education

Sungai Liang Primary School is a government school which provides general primary education to the resident pupils of Sungai. It also shares grounds with Sungai Liang Religious School, also a government school but provides ugama or Islamic religious primary education which is compulsory for Muslim pupils in the country.[15]

Religion

Place of worship

Kampong Sungai Liang Mosque was inaugurated in 1980 and is the village mosque which enables the Muslim residents for conducting Jumu'ah or Friday prayers as well as other congregational prayers and communal religious activities.[16]

References
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  4. "Belait District" (PDF). www.information.gov.bn. pp. 8–9. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  5. "Brunei Methanol restarts Sungai Liang methanol plant after outage". Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  6. "Brunei Darussalam Methanol Plant - Chemical Technology". Chemical Technology. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  7. "Sg Liang plant to export hydrogen to Japan by 2020 - The Scoop". The Scoop. 2018-04-22. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  8. "AHEAD to begin world's first international supply of hydrogen from Brunei in 2020 | Biz Brunei". www.bizbrunei.com. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  9. "Brunei hydrogen plant to fuel cars at Tokyo Olympics – Borneo Bulletin Online". Borneo Bulletin Online. 2017-08-26. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  10. "thyssenkrupp wins major fertilizer plant order in Brunei". thyssenkrupp. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  11. "BFI signs deal to establish world-class fertilizer plant – Borneo Bulletin Online". Borneo Bulletin Online. 2017-08-27. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  12. KG, Vogel Business Media GmbH & Co. "Thyssen Krupp Awarded Major Contract for Fertilizer Plant in Brunei". Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  13. "Thyssenkrupp wins EPC contract for new fertilizer plant in Brunei - World Construction Network". www.worldconstructionnetwork.com. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  14. "Sultanate - News | Negara Brunei Darussalam | Recipients express gratitude to His Majesty". www.sultanate.com. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  15. "Brunei will remain a MIB-guided nation, thanks to religious education – Borneo Bulletin Online". Borneo Bulletin Online. 2017-10-21. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  16. "SenaraiMasjid - Masjid Kampong Sungai Liang". www.kheu.gov.bn (in Malay). Retrieved 2018-04-28.
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