Styrene plant contract granted

10 February 2003 00:00  [Source: ICB]

ABB Lummus Global has been awarded a basic engineering and technology contract from Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) and Saudi Industrial Investment Group (SIIG) for a grassroots styrene monomer (SM)plant in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia (ECN 7 October 2002).

The SM plant is only part of a planned $1bn aromatics complex, which will produce benzene, ethylbenzene and propylene.

Saudi Chevron Phillips, a joint venture between CPChem and SIIG, will produce 700 000 tonne/year of styrene, 145 000 tonne/year of propylene and 89 000 tonne/year of mixed C4s when the facility comes onstream in 2007 - a year later than initially estimated.

The SM unit will use the CDtech catalytic distillation process, which provides a unique reactor system for dilute ethylene feedstock, for the production of ethylbenzene and the Lummus/ UOP Classic dehydrogenation process for SM manufacture. The value of the technology and engineering contract awarded to ABB was not disclosed.

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