Sasol has let the front-end engineering and design contract for its project to produce ethylene, vehicle fuel, and other products at its Lake Charles, La., chemical complex to Fluor Corp. (OGJ Online, Dec. 3, 2012).
The project includes an ethane cracker able to produce 1.5 million tonnes/year of ethylene and a gas-to-liquids plant with capacity to produce 4 million tpy of transportation fuel.