TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Method: The method (M1) involves (a) feeding a syngas mixture consisting essentially of carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen (H2) to a methanol once-through reactor to make a methanol/syngas mixture; (b) Separating the mixture of step a) into crude methanol and unreacted syngas; (c) dividing the unreacted syngas of step b) into a first and a second stream; (d) feeding the first stream of step (c) to a syngas purification section to make CO, CO2 and a H2 stream; (e) Feeding the H2 stream of step (d) together with a N2 stream to an ammonia synthesis section to make an ammonia stream; (f) Feeding the second stream of step (c) and the CO stream of step (d) to a methanol loop reactor to make a methanol-containing mixture; (g) separating crude methanol from the methanol-containing mixture and recycling the remaining gas to step (f); (h) Feeding the crude methanol from step (b) and from step (g) to a methanol purification section to result in a methanol stream; The method (M1) involves (a'') feeding air to an air separation section to make an O2 and N2 stream; (a') reforming a desulphurised hydrocarbon feedstock with O2 from step (a'') and steam in a combined reforming section to make a syngas mixture consisting essentially of CO, CO2 and H2; (a1) feeding the syngas mixture of step (a') to a methanol once-through reactor to make a methanol/syngas mixture; (b1) separating the mixture of step (a1) into crude methanol and unreacted syngas; (c1) dividing the unreacted syngas of step b1) into a first and a second stream; (d1) feeding the first stream of step (c1) to a syngas purification section to make CO, CO2 and H2 stream; (e1) feeding the H2 stream of step (d1) together with the N2 stream of step (a'') to an ammonia synthesis section to make an ammonia stream; (f1) feeding the second stream of step (c1) and the CO stream of step (d1) to a methanol loop reactor to make a methanol-containing mixture; (g1) Separating crude methanol from the methanol-containing mixture and recycling the remaining gas to step (f1); (h1) Feeding the crude methanol from step (b1) and from step (g1) to a methanol purification section to result in a methanol stream. The syngas mixture has a stoichiometric number SN of 1.9-2.3, where a methane-rich feedstock is mixed with steam and passed through an adiabatic pre-reformer (APR), and where pre-reformed gas from the APR is divided into three streams that are fed to a steam methane reformer (SMR), a gas heated reformer (GHR), and together with the oxygen to an auto-thermal reformer (ATR), which 3 reforming reactors are operated in parallel. The hydrocarbon feedstock is a methane-rich feedstock that contains as least 75 mol% of methane. The first and the second stream of unreacted syngas are divided in a ratio of 50/50-80/20. The ratio of the first to the second stream is 70/30. EXAMPLE - No suitable example given.