Catalytic olefins technology contract let

Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Yanan Energy & Chemical Co. Ltd. will use proprietary Advanced Catalytic Olefins (ACO) technology developed by KBR and SK Innovation at a plant to be built in Shaanxi Province, China.

Bob Tippee

Oct. 18, 2011

The ACO converter will have capacity of about 200,000 tonnes/year of ethylene and propylene.

KBR said the license and process design contract represents the first licensing of the technology, which catalytically cracks naphtha and other straight-run feeds with olefin yields exceeding those of traditional steam cracking.

SK Innovation, formerly SK Energy, last year started up an ACO demonstration plant at its chemical complex in Ulsan, South Korea.

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Bob Tippee

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Bob Tippee has been chief editor of Oil & Gas Journal since January 1999 and a member of the Journal staff since October 1977. Before joining the magazine, he worked as a reporter at the Tulsa World and served for four years as an officer in the US Air Force. A native of St. Louis, he holds a degree in journalism from the University of Tulsa.