ExxonMobil calls for bids on Singapore plant expansion

Shaw Stone & Webster and the Technip-Chiyoda joint venture, on behalf of ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., have invited bids for design, engineering, procurement, and construction work for a proposed second "world-scale" steam cracker at ExxonMobil's chemical facility adjacent to its 605,000 b/cd Singapore refinery.

June 23, 2006

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By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, June 23 -- Shaw Stone & Webster and the Technip-Chiyoda joint venture, on behalf of ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., have invited bids for design, engineering, procurement, and construction work for a proposed second "world-scale" steam cracker at ExxonMobil's chemical facility adjacent to its 605,000 b/cd Singapore refinery.

The proposed cracker would be integrated with an ethylene plant having a capacity exceeding 900,000 tonnes/year following completion of a 75,000-tonne/year expansion in the fourth quarter (OGJ, Feb. 7, 2005, Newsletter).

In 2005, ExxonMobil awarded a project coordination and services contract to Foster Wheeler Ltd. and WorleyParsons Ltd. joint venture for work associated with the study for the proposed steam cracker (OGJ, Jan. 9, 2006, Newsletter).

Along with the new ethylene cracker, the parallel train would include new world-scale polyethylene, polyproplylene, and speciality elastomer plants, an aromatics extraction unit, and oxoalcohol expansion.

ExxonMobil has awarded front-end engineering design (FEED) contracts for these downstream units associated with the cracker: Aker Kvaerner ASA will perform FEED work for a polyethylene unit; Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding for polypropylene and specialty elastomers units; and the Foster Wheeler-WorleyParsons JV for an aromatics extraction unit, an oxoalcohol plant expansion, and associated plant infrastructure. Mustang Engineering Inc., Houston, received the process control and instrumentation contract.