ABB wins engineering contract for Saudi SM plant project
27 January 2003 18:59 [Source: ICIS news]
HOUSTON (CNI)--ABB Lummus Global said Monday it has been awarded the technology license and basic engineering contract for the grassroots styrene monomer (SM) plant to be built in Saudi Arabia by Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) and Saudi Industrial Investment Group (SIIG).
The SM plant project is part of a planned $1bn (Euro920m) aromatics facility that will produce benzene, ethylbenzene (EB) and propylene as well as SM. To be built at Al-Jubail, the project is expected to come online in 2007, ABB said.
Earlier reports had projected a start date of sometime in 2006.
ABB said the SM facility will employ the CDTech catalytic distillation process for production of EB and the Lummus/UOP "Classic" dehydrogenation process for the production of SM.
The value of the technology license and engineering contract were not disclosed.
ABB Lummus Global is based in Bloomfield, New Jersey.
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