Kellogg Brown & Root, a unit of Dallas, Tex.,-based Halliburton Co., announced a contract to supply engineering, procurement, and construction services for a new pyrolysis furnace for ExxonMobil Chemicals� Baytown olefins plant. The furnace will have the capacity to produce more than 200,000 tons/year.
LG-Caltex Oil Corp., part of the Korean LG Group conglomerate, will use the CrystPX crystallization process technology from GTC Technology Corp., Houston, for a new paraxylene production unit in Yosu, Korea. The plant is scheduled for start up in January 2003. The LG-Caltex Yosu complex already has a paraxylene production facility with 700,000 tonne/year; the new unit will be a 400,000 tonne/year unit.
Foster Wheeler Corp., Clinton, NJ, said its French subsidiary, Foster Wheeler France, won a $7 million contract for a refinery modernization project in Russia. Foster Wheeler France will be project management consultant for the first phase of a 10-year moderization project at the Nizhnekamsk Refinery JSC. The 120,493-b/d crude capacity refinery is near the city of Nizhnekamsk in the Republic of Tatarstan.