Technip wins ethylene plant deal
Project Name: Ethylene plant
Project Location: Shuaiba, Kuwait
Client: The Kuwait Olefins Company
Contact Details: Maha A Rahman Mulla Husain
Planning and Joint Ventures
Petrochemical Industries Company
PO Box 1084 Safat 13011 Kuwait
Phone: +965 321 1000
Fax: +965 321 1171
Contractor: Technip
Project Details: Technip has signed a contract for the construction of an ethylene plant at The Kuwait Olefins Company’s (TKOC) new Olefins-2 petrochemical complex in Shuaiba, Kuwait.
This contract covers the detailed engineering, procurement and supply of equipment and materials, construction and pre-commissioning and follows the signing in June 2005 of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Technip and TKOC, a joint venture between the Dow Chemical Company (Dow), Petrochemical Industries Company, Kuwait (PIC) and Kuwaiti Private Companies.
The plant, with a planned production capacity of 850,000 tonnes per year (tpy) will play an important role in Kuwait’s program to significantly increase the country’s ethylene derivatives production by 2008. Technip’s operations and engineering centre in Rome (Italy) will execute the contract. The project is scheduled for completion in early 2008.
The plant will be based on Technip’s in-house technology. The basic engineering for the proprietary SMK cracking furnaces, as well as the front-end design for the recovery section have already been provided by Technip’s operations and engineering centre in Claremont, California.
Technip is a leader in the field of ethylene production and is one of the few world-class groups capable of assuming complete responsibility for steam crackers, from conceptual design to turnkey design and construction.
Technip’s SMK technology has become the preferred choice of various ethylene producers for cracking gas feeds.
The total cost for the construction of an 850,000 tonnes per year (tpy) ethane cracker, a 600,000 tpy ethylene glycol/ ethylene oxide unit and a 400,000 tpy polyethylene unit is about $2 billion.
China firms sign $900m Iran smelter contract
Project Name: Electrolysed aluminium plant
Project Location: Bandar Abbas, Iran
Client: South Aluminum Group (Salco)
Contact Details: Hedayatollah Aghaee, Planning & Development Deputy Imidro
Phone: +98 21 202 4046/76
Fax: +98 21 202 205 0045
Contractor: CITIC Group and China Aluminum International Engineering Corporation
Project Details: Iran’s South Aluminum Group (Salco) has signed a IRR8,167 billion ($900 million) electrolysed aluminium plant phase-one design, purchase and building contract with a consortium of CITIC Group and China Aluminum International Engineering Corporation. The smelter will have a capacity of one million tonnes per year (tpy) and will be located in Bandar Abbas.
The first phase includes an aluminium smelting plant with a capacity of 270,000 tpy, an anode plant with a capacity of 150,000 tpy, and associated port facilities.
The project will be in three phases on EPCC (engineering, procurement and construction contract) basis (without power plant).
Salco is owned by Iran’s largest investment company, Ghadir Investment Company and IMIDRO (Iran Mines and Industry Development and Renovation Organisation).
Aramco sulfur recovery units (SRUs)
Project Name: Sulfur recovery units (SRUs)
Project Location: Kursaniyah, Shedgum and Uthmaniyah
Client: Saudi Aramco
Contact Details: Ali A Al-Ajmi, Vice President - Project Management
Saudi Aramco
PO Box 5000 Dhahran 31311, KSA
Phone: +9663 872-0115
Fax: +9663 873-8190
Contractor: Jacobs Engineering Group
Project Details: Saudi Aramco has selected Jacobs Engineering Group’s proprietary Supreclaus technology for 13 sulphur recovery units (SRUs).
Jacobs will perform the awarded work at three key Saudi Aramco locations. The Kursaniyah site is adding three SRUs with a capacity of 900 tonnes per day (tpd) each while the Shedgum and Uthmaniyah locations are both revamping five 550-tpd units. These 13 units will process over 8,200 tonnes of sulphur per day.
The Supreclaus units produce molten elemental sulfur by recovering sulfur from acid gas (H2S and CO2) feed streams generated by high- and low-pressure regeneration facilities. The additions and upgrades allow Saudi Aramco to satisfy environmental regulations that require a sulphur recovery level of at least 98.7 per cent.
Saudi Aramco has over 20 operating units in five locations. Jacobs has added all of the units since they began providing technical services to Saudi Aramco in 2000.
Jacobs Nederland BV-Comprimo Sulphur Solutions Group now has over 30 sulphur projects in development worldwide, representing a total recovery of over 25,000 tonnes of sulphur per day. They have built over 300 units since 1985.
Saudi Aramco is a fully integrated global petroleum enterprise headquartered in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, participating in exploration & producing, refining, distribution, shipping, and marketing.
With around 54,000 employees globally, representing 56 nationalities, the company is 100 per cent owned by Saudi Arabian Government. It has affiliates, joint ventures and subsidiary offices in China, Egypt, Greece, Japan, Netherlands, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, United Arab Emirates and the United States.
Jacobs, whose headquarters are in Pasadena, California, provides technical, professional, and construction services globally.
