06. February 2016
SAUDI ARABIA: Sabic awards CTCI FEED contract for Saudi Kayan EO/EG expansion
CTCI Corp. has won a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract from Sabic for an ethylene oxide (EO) and ethylene glycol (EG) debottlenecking at Saudi Kayan's Jubail site.
CTCI did not disclose details on the project, but “PetroChemical News” (PCN) last year reported that Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources had agreed to allocate additional ethane to Saudi Kayan, which would be used to increase ethylene capacity by at least 93,000 t/y and EO capacity by a minimum of 61,000 t/y.
This is the first project under a blanket FEED arrangement reached between Sabic and CTCI in October 2015, CTCI noted.
Source: Weekly “PetroChemical News”, Durham, NC, USA; 18 Jan 2016
(Syed Rashid Ali, Karachi, Pakistan)