Technip wins contracts for Saudi Jubail refinery project

10 July 2009 16:09  [Source: ICIS news]

TORONTO (ICIS news)--Technip has won two major contracts for a 400,000 bbl/day grassroots refinery planned at Jubail in Saudi Arabia, the French petrochemicals engineering firm said on Friday.

The refinery – a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and French oil and petrochemicals major Total – would also produce 700,000 tonnes/year of paraxylene, 140,000 tonnes/year of benzene and 200,000 tonnes/year of polymer-grade propylene after completion in 2013, Technip said.

Technip’s contracts covered engineering, procurement and construction for the refinery’s hydro and catalytic cracking conversion process units and for some utility units, as well as the interconnecting network and process control system for the entire refinery, it said.

Financial terms were not disclosed.

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