Kvaerner confirms EPC role in BP ETAC project

17 November 1998 17:54  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (CNI)--Kvaerner Process (UK) confirmed on Tuesday it has won the engineering, procurement and construction management support services (EPC) contract for BP Chemicals’ £200m ($333m) ethyl acetate (ETAC) project at Hull in northeast England.

The contract, which is due for completion in 2001, also includes core offsites for both the vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) and ETAC process plants. The contract price was not immediately available.

Kvaerner Process, which is part of the Norway’s Kvaerner ASA, has been involved with BP in designing and building a pilot plant for development quantities. The commercial scale ETAC plant will have a capacity of 220 000 tonne/year.

By: Neil Sinclair
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