WHO'S BUILDING IN HPI

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• Publication Date: July 1, 1988
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WHO'S BUILDING IN HPI
Peggy S. Stautberg, Associate Editor
Soviet contract won
by French consortium
The consortium of Lurgi S.A., Paris,
and Litwin S.A. have been awarded a
contract by V/O Machinoimport, Mos-
cow, on behalf of the Oil Ministry of the
USSR to supply gas and oil treatment
facilities for another two stages in the
development of the Tenguiz oil field.at
the northeast corner of the Caspian
Sea. The contract is worth around 500
million DM.
The job covers the engineering, sup-
ply of technical documentation and
equipment, as well as supervision of
erection work for two process units to
produce some three million tpy of stabi-
lized crude each.
The accompanying gases will be de-
sulfurized to recover 450,000 tpy of
pure sulfur per unit. The gases will be
separated into 175,000 tpy of ethane,
100,000 tpy of propane, 200,000 tpy of
liquefied gas and 630,000 tpy of natural
gas.
About 25% of the supplies and ser-
vices for the two new stages of the Ten-
guiz complex will come from the Fed-
eral Republic of Germany. Supplies
from the USSR have been increased
significantly in comparison with the
first stage.
The first plant, for which the contract
was awarded in second quarter 1985 to
a consortium which is also piloted by
Lurgi, is currently under construction.
It is scheduled for completion by the
end of 1989.
Completion of the second and third
stages of the complex is slated for as
early as 1990.
LLDPE contract won
Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd. has been
awarded a lump-sum contract for the
engineering, procurement and con-
struction supervision of BP Chemicals
International's LLDPE (linear low den-
sity polyethylene) plant at Grange-
mouth, Scotland.' Reading, England-
based Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd. is a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Foster
Wheeler Corp.
The 125,000 metric-tpy plant at
Grangemouth is a part of a ?60 million-
plus investment (some $112 million) by
BP Chemicals to increase its manufac-
turing capacity of LLDPE and HDPE
(high density polyethylene) and will re-
place the existing 90,000-tpy LDPE
plant. It will produce alpha-olefin
LLDPE copolymers using the BP fluid
bed polyethylene process and will be in
operation by the end of 1989.
Work already has started on the proj-,
ect and design activities will be shared
between Foster Wheeler's Reading and
Glasgow offices.
Chlorine plant contract
awarded by FPC
Uhde GmbH of Dortmund, Fed.
Rep. of Germany, has concluded a con-
tract with the Formosa Plastics Corp.
(FPC) for the conversion of a mercury-
cell alkaline chloride electrolysis plant
to the low-pollution, energy-saving
membrane cell technology. The plant,
originally supplied by Uhde in 1973
and located in the Kaohsiung region of
southern Taiwan, has at present an out-
put of 525 tpd, which is to be raised to
640 tpd. Uhde's services under the con-
tract comprise the complete basic, detail
and civil engineering. The work will be
carried out in cooperation with Uhde's
Indian subsidiary based in ? Bombay,
though the complete membrane cells
will be supplied directly from Germany.
Civil works and erection are to be car-
ried out by the client, with these opera-
tions as well as the commissioning stage
supervised by Uhde engineers. The re-
vamped plant is scheduled to go on-
stream in mid-1989.
The contract is worth approximately
DM 25 million, including both engi-
neering and supply.
Lump-sum order received
Kinetics Technology International
(KTI) BV of Zoetermeer, the Nether-
lands, has received from Rheinische
Olefinwerke (ROW) GmbH of Wessel-
ing, Federal Republic 'of Germany-an
affiliate of BASF (50%) and Shell,
(50%)-a lump-sum turnkey order for
an ethylene plant front end producing
230,000 metric-tpy of ethylene.
For this project, Shell Internationale
Chemie Maatschappij (SICM) N.V. of
The Hague, the Netherlands, will act as
consultant to ROW.
The value of this order is around 160
million German Marks and the sched-
uled completion will be in fourth quar-
ter 1989. This project will replace the
old front end part of the ethylene unit
MG4.
The design feedstock of the plant will
be a hydrogenated heavy distillate from
the Shell Godorf refinery; however,
Expansion planned-Huntsman Chemical
Co., Ltd., Carrington, England, will increase
incrementally its annual polystyrene capacity
from 50 million to 250 million pounds over the
next two years. The additional capacity will be
brought on by two grass-roots production
lines, one crystal and one impact. This ex-
pansion will introduce the latest in polymer
process control systems. All major equipment
for the first line is on order, with construction
to begin in mid-1988. All major equipment for
the second line will be ordered in the third
quarter of 1988. '
other feedstocks ranging from LPG to
heavy feedstocks with high end points
can be processed as well.
Korea to get
second PP plant
ISU Chemical Ltd. has selected the
Union Carbide Corp./Shell Oil Co.
(USA) Unipol PP process for its
planned new polypropylene plant at
Onsan, Korea. The 200,000 metric-tpy
plant is scheduled for completion in the
second quarter of 1990.
The new plant, having the world's
largest single train polypropylene reac-
tor system, will mark ISU's first major
participation in the petrochemicals
business.
Styrene plant design
contract awarded
Lucky Polychemical Co., Ltd., of
Seoul, Korea, has awarded Lummus
Crest, a subsidiary of Combustion En-
gineering, Inc., a contract for the design
of an 80,000 metric-tpy styrene plant in
Korea.
Basic engineering for the project will
be performed by the Lummus Technol-
ogy Division in Bloomfield, N.J., utiliz-
ing the Monsanto/Lummus Crest state-
of-the-art styrene process.
Lummus Heat Transfer System will
perform the thermal design and me-
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