MOSCOW (MRC) -- Lotte Chemical Louisiana LLC, a subsidiary of South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp., has let an additional contract to CB&I, Houston, for an associated monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant to be built next to its 1 million-tonne/year ethane cracker project with Axiall Corp., Atlanta, in Lake Charles, La. (OGJ Online, June 18, 2015), as per Ogj.
As part of the contract, valued at more than USD365 million, CB&I will provide construction services for the MEG plant, the service provider said on Dec. 21.
Lotte Chemical previously let a contract to CB&I to provide construction planning and reviews, as well as early works services, for the proposed MEG unit, which will sit adjacent to the planned cracker (OGJ Online, Oct. 30, 2015).
To be owned and operated by Lotte Chemical, the USD1.1-billion MEG plant, once completed, will be the nation’s largest and provide the company 600,000 tpy of MEG for export to Europe and Asia, said Soo Young Huh, Lotte Chemical’s president and chief executive.
As MRC informed earlier, LACC LLC, a subsidiary of Axiall and Lotte Chemical USA Corp.’s 50–50 joint venture Eagle US 2 LLC, recently announced its final investment decision to build the steam cracker and MEG plant at a total cost of USD3 billion nearby Axiall’s Lake Charles chlor-alkali manufacturing plants to take advantage of existing infrastructure, competitive US shale feedstock resources, and ethylene distribution infrastructure.
Lotte Chemical is a member of the Lotte Group in Korea, which has been listed on the Korean Stock Exchange since 1991. Lotte Chemical is a leading manufacturer of petrochemical products, such as ethylene, propylene, butadiene, polyethylene, polypropylene, ethylene oxide/glycol, compound resin, polyethylene terephthalate, polycarbonate, methyl methacrylate, ethylene oxide derivatives, benzene, toluene, mixed xylene, purified terephthalic acid and purified isophthalic acid among others. Lotte Chemical, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, has manufacturing facilities located throughout South Korea, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, UK and the USA.
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