The US' Fluor Corporation has taken the project management consultancy (PMC) contract on the multi-billion-dollar petrochemical complex being developed at Jubail by the US/local joint venture of INEOS Enterprises and Delta Oil Company (MEED 29:9:06). Fluor will conduct basic engineering design on some of the project's process units, prepare tender documents, and provide supervision services on the various engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts.
The scheme centres on the installation of an ethane/propane cracker with a capacity of 1.2 million tonnes a year for which the US' Stone & Webster, part of the Shaw Group, and Kellogg Brown & Root, also of the US, are competing (MEED 10:6:05). The complex includes fourdownstream process unitsproducing 400,000 t/y of linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE), 450,000-550,000 t/y of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) depending on the grades produced acrylonitrile and propylene produced from a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant.INEOS will supply its proprietary technology for all the units, except the PDH plant. Paris-based Technip is finalising the front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the HDPE and LLDPE units as well as the outside battery limits.The Petroleum & Mineral Resources Ministry has still to allocate the project's gas feedstock, although sources close to the scheme say that an allocation is imminent. You might also like...
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