Technip, in association with Innovene as licensor, has been awarded by Petrochina International a contract for two lines of polypropylene for Petrochina Dushanzi Petrochemical Company’s new complex in the Xinjiang Province, China.

Due to its exceptional shock resistant properties, polypropylene is a plastic used in a wide range of industries including automobile parts, household goods, fibres and films.
The contract, worth over $50 million for Technip, covers the basic and front-end engineering, the procurement of key equipment and material and the technical assistance for construction and commissioning.
The facility will be designed based on Innovene technologies to produce 550,000 tonnes per year (tpy) of polypropylene.
The contract will be carried out by Technip’s operations and engineering centre (OEC) in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) with the support of Lyon OEC (France).
The plant is scheduled for completion at the end of 2007 for a commissioning in early 2008.
Technip has been working for Petrochina for over 30 years. This new contract for one of Petrochina’s major petrochemical investments represents a new milestone in the long-term cooperation between the companies.
With a workforce of about 20,000 people, Technip ranks among the top five corporations in the field of oil, gas and petrochemical engineering, construction and services. Headquartered in Paris, the group is listed in New York and Paris. Its main operations and engineering centres are located in France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, the US, Brazil, Abu-Dhabi, China, India, Malaysia and Australia. In support of its activities, the group manufactures flexible pipes and umbilicals, and builds offshore platforms in its manufacturing plants and fabrication yards in France, Brazil, the UK, the US, Finland and Angola, and has a fleet of specialised vessels for pipeline installation and subsea construction.