Sibur picks Linde for Russia ethylene project FEED
Technology company The Linde Group has received an engineering contract for the licensing and front-end engineering design (FEED) of a world-scale ethylene plant in Tobolsk, Western Siberia.
The contract was awarded by Russia's largest petrochemical company, SIBUR. The two companies signed an agreement on Thursday in St. Petersburg.
"We are delighted to be working on this project and continuing our successful collaboration with Russia's most important petrochemical company," said Professor Dr. Aldo Belloni, executive board member for Linde.
"We also hope that this agreement will lead to further key contracts for our engineering business in this Eastern European growth market."
The ethylene plant is to be built at the ZapSibNeftekhim petrochemical complex in Tobolsk, which is being planned by the company ZapsibNeftekhim, a subsidiary of SIBUR.
Once finished, the new plant will produce around 1.5 million tpy of ethylene, 500,000 tpy of propylene and 100,000 tpy of butadiene from the feedstocks ethane, propane and n-butane.
The products produced by the plant are important building blocks for the plastics manufacturing industry, officials say.
The FEED services provided by Linde are the first step in the project. Linde’s work will provide a foundation for the detailed engineering and construction phase, the company said.
Linde's services also include a cost estimate, which will be used by SIBUR to inform the final investment decision.
Linde is currently constructing a polypropylene plant for SIBUR at its Tobolsk site. The unit has a capacity of 500,000 tpy and is set to go on stream next year.
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