July 6, 2005—Fluor Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding with a joint venture of Dow Chemical Company and Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services for the utilities and infrastructure portion of a major petrochemical project in Kuwait, says the company.
This work is in addition to the program management contract which was awarded last year to perform overall management consultancy and front-end engineering services.
The billion-plus dollar, integrated petrochemical complex, known as the Olefins II Program, will be located approximately 25 miles south of Kuwait City in Shuaiba. It will include construction of an 850,000-tons-per-year cracker, a 600,000-tons-per-year ethylene glycol unit, a 450,000-tons-per-year ethyl benzene/styrene monomer unit and a debottleneck expansion of an additional 225,000 tons per year of polyethylene capacity at the existing complex. The completed facility will double the capacity at the existing olefins complex.
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