MOSCOW (MRC) -- Shanghai Lianyungang Petrochemical Co., a subsidiary of Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical Co., has awarded a technology contract to CB&I for two new ethylene units at Lianyungang's petrochemical facility in Jiangsu Prov-ince, China, as per Apic-online.
CB&I's scope of work includes a process design package, heater engineering and technology license for the ethylene facilities, which will have a capacity of 1.25-million t/y each. A schedule for the project and value of the contract were not disclosed.
CB&I will utilize its "market-leading," low-cost ethane cracker flowsheet, which reduces investment costs by eliminating plant equipment, CB&I noted.
"Once complete, these will be China's first ethylene plants to crack 100% ethane feed, signifying a new wave of ethylene projects fed by shale gas ethane sourced from the U.S.," explained CB&I. "Currently all large ethylene plants in China crack mixed feeds of liquid feeds."
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