Amec Foster Wheeler awarded work on new China coal-to-chemicals project
Amec Foster Wheeler announced that it has received a three-year project management contract from Shenhua Ningxia Coal Group for the coal-to-chemical byproduct deep processing complex utilization project in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region in northwest China.
Under the reimbursable multi-million dollar contract, the value of which has not been announced, Amec Foster Wheeler will be part of an integrated project management team responsible for the management of the engineering, commercial, procurement, health and safety, quality and project controls activities of the project.
The new plant is designed to produce a range of different coal-chemical products, polyethylene, polypropylene, synthetic ammonia and aromatic hydrocarbons.
It will include a 1.4 million tpy cracking plant that is expected to commence operation by mid-2017.
“This is a significant repeat contract for a major long-term customer in the strategically important chemicals sector,” said Mike Collins, Amec Foster Wheeler's regional director for Northeast Asia.
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