Fluor Awarded Front-End Contract for World’s Largest Propylene Oxide/Tertiary Butyl Alcohol Plant
February 09 2016 - 8:42AM
Business Wire
Fluor Corporation (NYSE:FLR) announced today that LyondellBasell
(NYSE: LYB), one of the world’s largest plastics, chemical and
refining companies, has selected Fluor to perform front-end
engineering and design (FEED) work for its proposed propylene oxide
and tertiary butyl alcohol plant. Fluor booked the undisclosed
contract value in the fourth quarter of 2015.
The plant will be the world’s largest of its type and will be
located at LyondellBasell’s existing Channelview and Bayport Choate
complexes in Texas. The scope includes a 1 billion pound-per-year
propylene oxide and a 2 billion pound-per-year tertiary butyl
alcohol plant at the Channelview site, an ethers plant at the
Bayport Choate site, as well as associated infrastructure. The
products will be used in the production of polyols, high-octane
gasoline components and other isobutylene derivatives.
“Fluor is bringing its proven integrated engineering,
procurement, fabrication and construction solutions approach to
support this world-scale project’s advancement,” said Jim Brittain,
president of Fluor’s Energy & Chemicals Americas business line.
“We will leverage our extensive U.S. Gulf Coast chemicals
experience and innovative global procurement and design approaches
to develop a capital efficient solution for LyondellBasell.”
Front-end design activities are expected to be completed in
2016.
About Fluor Corporation
Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) is a global engineering and
construction firm that designs and builds some of the world's most
complex projects. The company creates and delivers innovative and
integrated solutions for its clients in engineering, procurement,
fabrication, construction, maintenance, and project management on a
global basis. For more than a century, Fluor has served clients in
the energy, chemicals, government, industrial, infrastructure,
mining and power market sectors. Headquartered in Irving, Texas,
Fluor ranks 136 on the FORTUNE 500 list. With 40,000 employees
worldwide, the company's revenue for 2014 was $21.5 billion. For
more information, visit www.fluor.com or follow us on Twitter
@FluorCorp.
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