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USA : Shaw wins Ethylene Revamp Project contract in Korea

USA : Shaw wins Ethylene Revamp Project contract in Korea

Write: Whitfield [2011-05-20]
The Shaw Group Inc announced that its Energy & Chemicals Group has been awarded a contract to supply engineering services and proprietary equipment for the quench system at the Lotte Daesan Petrochemical Corporation’s Naptha Cracking Center (NCC) Revamping Project in Daesan, Republic of Korea.
The value of Shaw’s contract, already included in the company’s previously announced backlog, was undisclosed.
The project, which is planned to increase ethylene production by nearly 50 percent to 1,000 kilotons per annum, is expected to be completed in the summer of 2008. The revamp will include Shaw’s proprietary Ripple Tray, Vapor Flute and Heavy Fuel Oil Separation technologies.
In a separate agreement signed during 2006, Shaw is supplying two proprietary Ultra Selective Conversion furnaces to Lotte Daesan at the same site.
“We are pleased to provide our innovative technologies and integrated engineering solutions for Lotte Daesan’s significant revamp project,” said J. M. Bernhard Jr., chairman, president and chief executive officer of Shaw.
“With nearly 40 percent of the world’s incremental ethylene production during the past decade based on our technology, Shaw-designed ethylene plants have established a global reputation for exceptionally high operational reliability, rapid startup and superior performance.”
Lotte Daesan Petrochemical Corporation is a business unit of Honam Petrochemical Corporation. The Lotte Daesan NCCplant is part of the large integrated complex at Daesan, which was previously owned by Hyundai Petrochemical and is now operated by several companies.
From two NCC plants and 24 satellite facilities, the entire complex produces over one million tons of ethylene products and 3.3 million tons of affiliated products, the largest amount for a single complex in the world.