McDermott International Inc. (formerly CB&I) has confirmed details of its scope of work on an earlier awarded contract by Ineos AG for a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit the operator plans to build alongside a gas cracker in northwestern Europe (OGJ Online, Oct. 2, 2018).
McDermott will deliver licensing and engineering of the PDH unit, which will be equipped with McDermott’s Lummus CATOFIN dehydrogenation process technology to produce 750,000 tonnes/year of propylene, the service provider said.
The PDH unit also will use CATOFIN catalyst and heat-generating material provided by Clariant International Ltd., McDermott said.
McDermott, which will reflect the order in its third-quarter backlog, valued the contract at $1-50 million.
Ineos previously said it expects to commission the PDH unit in 2023 and will announce location of the €2.7-billion cracker-PDH complex later this year.
The proposed investment follows Ineos’ 2017 announcement of plans for a series of proposed grassroots and brownfield projects to expand its ethylene and propylene production capacities in Europe to support continued growth of the company’s European petrochemical business (OGJ Online, June 12, 2017).
The project’s proposed cracker will be the first to be built in Europe in more than 20 years.
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