Saudi Aramco and TotalEnergies SE contractor Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd. has let a heater supply contract to Lummus Technology to provide eight proprietary Short Residence Time ethylene cracking heaters at joint venture Saudi Aramco Total Refinery & Petrochemicals Co.'s (Satorp) Amiral petrochemical complex in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Satorp has licensed multiple Lummus technologies at the Amiral complex including its ethylene, refinery off-gas recovery and treating, pygas hydrotreating, methyl tertiary butyl ether, isobutylene, butene and butadiene extraction technologies.
In July 2023, Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd. was contracted for work on the complex’s mixed-feed cracker that will be equipped to produce 1.65 million tonnes/year (tpy) of ethylene and related industrial gases (OGJ Online, July 3, 2023). This contract also includes EPC for associated utilities, flares, and interconnecting systems to support the project’s other main packages.
Scheduled to begin commercial operations in 2027, the Amiral complex aims to provide feedstock to proposed petrochemical and specialty chemical plants slated to be built, owned, and operated in the Jubail industrial area by other global downstream investors for manufacturing, Aramco and TotalEnergies said.
