Sasol has let a contract to Technip to supply ethylene technology and front-end engineering design for a grassroots ethane cracker.
To be installed at Sasol’s Lake Charles, La., site, the cracker will be able to produce 1.5 million tons/year of ethylene (OGJ Online, July 15, 2013).
Stan Knez, Technip’s senior vice-president for process technology, said installation of the cracker is based current low US natural gas prices and abundance of ethane.