McDermott awarded olefins contract in Thailand
Published by Alex Hithersay,
Editorial Assistant
Hydrocarbon Engineering,
McDermott International Inc. has announced that it has been awarded a technology contract for Map Ta Phut Olefins Co. Ltd's (MOC) petrochemical plant in Rayong Province, Thailand.
MOC is a joint venture company of SCG Chemicals Co. Ltd, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of SCG, and the Dow Chemical Co.
McDermott will provide the basic engineering and license of Lummus’s olefins technology and will design and supply the proprietary SRT® III heater for the MOC Debottleneck Project, a parallel gas cracker added to increase plant capacity which will utilise Lummus’s side cracker technology, including a low pressure chilling train and enhanced binary refrigeration.
McDermott's Lummus Technology is a licensor of proprietary petrochemicals, refining, gasification and gas processing technologies, and a supplier of proprietary catalysts and related engineering.
Portions of this award were booked in prior quarters. The heater supply will be reflected in McDermott's 3Q18 backlog.
Read the article online at: https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/petrochemicals/02102018/mcdermott-awarded-olefins-contract-in-thailand/
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