GS Caltex Corp., Seoul, a 50-50 joint venture of GS Energy Corp. and Chevron Corp., has let a contract to KBR Inc. to supply its proprietary Selective Cracking Optimum Recovery (SCORE) technology license, basic engineering design, and proprietary equipment supply services for a grassroots mixed-feed cracker as part of GS Caltex’s previously announced project to build an olefins production complex near its existing refining and petrochemical operations at Yeosu in the South Korean province of Jeollanam-do (OGJ Online, Apr. 20, 2018).
Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide its SCORE technology license and basic engineering design services for the proposed 700,000-tonne/year ethylene mixed-feed cracker, the service provider said.
The plant will use naphtha, LPG, and refinery off gases from GS Caltex’s 790,000-b/d Yeosu refinery as its main feedstocks, KBR said, which will also supply its highly selective SC-1 furnaces for the ethylene plant project.
Scheduled to begin construction in 2019, the mixed-feed cracking complex also will produce 500,000 tpy of polyethylene, GS Caltex said upon announcing the project.
Alongside a 790,000-b/sd refinery, GS Caltex’s Yeosu current operations also include plants for production of 2.8 million tpy of aromatics and 180,000 tpy of polypropylene.
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