CB&I awarded China petrochemicals complex contract

CB&I has announced that it has been awarded a contract by Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry
Group Co. Ltd. for the licence and engineering design of a grassroots petrochemicals complex
to be built in Lingwu, Yinchuan City, Ningxia, China
 

The complex will use CB&I's proprietary Olefins Conversion Technology (OCT) to produce 196,000
metric tons per annum (MTA) of polymer grade propylene and its Comonomer Production Technology
(CPT) to produce and recover 20,000 MTA of comonomer grade 1-butene.
 

"Our Olefins Conversion Technology is the most widely used pathway for on-purpose polymer grade
 propylene in the world," said Daniel McCarthy, president of CB&I's technology operating group.
"This project further demonstrates CB&I's capability to integrate our broad technology portfolio
 to meet our customers' needs."
 

The complex at Shenhua Ningxia will also use the latest CDHydro selective hydrogenation
 technology from CB&I, which allows the incorporation of different feed from the adjoining
 steam cracker into the downstream OCT unit.  Additionally, CDIsis technology from CB&I will
 provide the conversion of isobutene into normal butenes, which increases the potential polymer
 grade propylene available from the steam cracker C4s.