MOSCOW (MRC) -- JBF Petrochemicals, a wholly-owned subsidiary of JBF Industries Ltd, has granted Technip an important contract for a 1.25 million tonnes per year latest-generation purified terephthalic acid (PTA) unit, according to Technip's press release.
The new facility is to be located in the Special Economic Zone in Mangalore, India. The contract, worth from EUR100 to EUR250 million, covers the basic engineering, front-end engineering design, detailed engineering and procurement services of the unit. The plant will feature BP’s leading-edge proprietary PTA technology, as MRC reported earlier.
Technip is supposed to complete all works as per this contract in the first semester of 2015.
The company "is very proud to be selected for this world-scale PTA project", which wiil reinforce Technip's strong long-lasting collaboration with BP for PTA, commented Marco Villa, Senior Vice President of Technip Region B, composed of Italy, Greece, Eastern Europe/Russia/CIS and South America.
PTA is the primary feedstock for polyesters used in textiles and packaging and PET production.
Technip is a world leader in project management, engineering and construction for the energy industry. As MRC informed previously, Technip was awarded two contracts for the front-end engineering design (FEED) services of two refineries in Kazakhstan. Besides, ZapSibNeftekhim LLC, an affiliate of JSC Sibur Holding, awarded two front-end engineering and design (FEED) contracts to Technip for polyethylene plants located in Tobolsk, in the Tyumen region of Russia. The first contract concerns a linear-low/high-density gas phase polyethylene plant.
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