Aker-Praj JV wins work on UK bioethanol project

26 June 2007 13:05  [Source: ICIS news]

MUMBAI (ICIS news)--India’s Praj Industries said on Tuesday that its bioethanol joint venture partner Aker Kvaerner has been selcted to execute the front end engineering and design (FEED) for a new world-scale UK bioethanol plant.

Praj would provide the technology and process package for the $400m project, it added. The project is a joint venture of BP, Associated British Foods (ABF) and DuPont.

"This is a good start for the Aker-Praj joint venture in Europe as we would supply technology to one of the largest such plants to be set up in the UK," said Praj chairman Pramod Chaudhari.

Work on the preparatory phase of the project would begin immediately and is expected to be completed by the end of 2007, Praj said.

Commissioning and start-up of the plant are scheduled for late 2009, it added.

The world-scale wheat-to-ethanol plant will produce around 420m litres/year of fuel ethanol.

The contract value to Aker Kvaerner was not disclosed.

By: Divya Chowdhury
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