Fluor to design Saudi petrochemicals complex
9 Jun 2005
Fluor has won a contract for front-end engineering design (FEED) and project management for a major petrochemicals complex to be built in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia for Project Management and Development (PMD).
The entire complex is expected to cost over $3.5billion.
Planning for the complex is already in an advanced phase. It will include a 1.35million tpa ethane/butane cracker; a 950 000tpa polyethylene plant; a polypropylene plant with a capacity of at least 600 000tpa; a 530 000tpa ethylene oxide unit; and a 300 000tpa bisphenol-A plant.
Derivatives plants are also planned, including methylamines, ethanolamine, ethoxylates, butane-1 and benzene extraction.
Agreements for supply of ethane and butane feedstocks from Saudi Aramco are in place, and planning permission for use of land and water have been obtained.
‘We’re excited to be a part of this project, which is one of the largest private investments in petrochemicals in the Middle East,’ comments David Seaton, senior vice-president for the chemicals business within Fluor’s Energy & Chemicals group.
Site work is expected to being this year, with completion in 2008.
