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The 12.5m t/y ethylene cracker will cost of US$1.7bn
26/10/2012
Technip wins Dow Texas ethylene contract
Freeport site will send products to downstream units
Helen Tunnicliffe
DOW Chemical has awarded the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract for its Freeport, Texas ethylene plant to Technip.
Technip will also provide the cracking furnaces engineering and procurement services for the 12.5m t/y ethylene cracker, which Dow confirmed it was building in April at a cost of US$1.7bn. Dow CEO Andrew Liveris said that the new Freeport plant will take advantage of cheap and stable shale gas feedstocks. Dow is the world’s largest producer of chemicals from ethylene. Products from the new plant will be used at Dow’s downstream facilities on the Gulf coast of Texas and Louisiana.
Nello Uccelletti, Technip’s senior vice president onshore says that it is the world’s largest ethylene licensor and contractor, and the contract is the fourth in a row for a new ethylene plant that Dow has awarded it in the past ten years.
“This contract will be based on Technip’s state-of-the-art proprietary technology, part of its portfolio of technologies recently expanded by the acquisition of Stone & Webster process technologies and associated oil and gas engineering capabilities,” he adds.
Technip says the FEED activities will be complete by the middle of 2013.
