CB&I to build China's largest low temperature liquid storage facility
22 Nov 2002
Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I) has been awarded a contract by Shanghai Ethylene Cracker Complex (SECCO) to design and construct a low temperature liquids storage facility in the world-scale Ethylene Complex to be located at the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park in Caojing, Shanghai, China. The project is valued in excess of $40 million.
According to a statement, the award represents the company's largest project in China. It is the first major project in China where CB&I has engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) responsibility.
CB&I's scope includes three double-wall refrigerated tanks for the storage of ethylene, ammonia and propylene, along with related foundations, civil and structural works, a refrigeration system, piping and instrumentation.
The three tanks will be the largest refrigerated tanks of their kind ever built in China. Engineering on the project is under way, with completion expected in summer 2004.
CB&I recently opened a representative office in Shanghai to support the contract and to pursue additional business opportunities in China's rapidly emerging hydrocarbon market.
