Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) has awarded contracts to The Shaw Group's Energy & Chemicals Group for providing its proprietary ethylene technology, including its Ultra Selective Conversion (USC®) furnace equipment, basic engineering and technical services for a 1 mln tpa ethylene plant in Brazil. Shaw will also provide similar services for the recovery section of a petrochemical fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) unit. Both the ethylene plant and petrochemical FCC unit are part of the development of the Rio de Janeiro Petrochemical Complex (COMPERJ), which is expected to increase Brazil's heavy oil refining capacity and help meet the increasing global demand for petrochemicals.
The ethylene plant award follows Shaw's work with Cenpes, the Research and Development Center of Petrobras, to develop the preliminary design for the petrochemical FCC unit that will produce 470,000 tpa propylene and 280,000 mln tpa ethylene. The ethylene plant and petrochemical FCC unit will utilize Shaw's patented liquids cracking olefins recovery and contaminant removal technologies to produce, recover and purify primarily polymer grade ethylene, propylene and butadiene that will be consumed in the downstream derivative units of the COMPERJ complex.
31-Oct-08 
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