Baku, Azerbaijan, June 29
By Elena Kosolapova – Trend:
Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I), based in the Netherlands, has been awarded a technology contract by Shurtan Gas Chemical Complex LLC (SGCC) for a grassroots ethylene complex to be built in southern Uzbekistan, CB&I said in a message June 29.
“The scope of work includes the license and basic engineering of an ethylene unit, which will use four proprietary SRT heaters, a Hexene-1 unit and a polypropylene unit,” the company said.
The Hexene-1 unit will use CB&I's Comonomer Production Technology for the production of Hexene-1 from low-cost C4s, and the polypropylene unit will use CB&I's Novolen gas-phase polypropylene technology for the production of full range polypropylene products.
"This is the second ethylene unit supplied to the [SGCC] complex, which reinforces our presence in Central Asia," said Daniel M. McCarthy, CB&I's Executive Vice President of Technology.
Uzbekistan made the strategic decision to use synthetic naphtha products from its Gas-to-Liquids plant located in the Kashkadarya region for the production of olefins, which can then be used for the production of high-value polymer products.
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