Technip has received a contract from Sasol Limited to provide engineering and procurement for eight proprietary Ultra Selective Conversion or USC furnaces. The furnaces are for a world-scale ethane cracker and derivatives complex to be located in Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. Technip's operating center in Houston, Texas, USA, will execute the project. Sasol has also selected Technip's proprietary ethylene technology and Front-end engineering design (FEED) for the cracker, which will produce an estimated 1.5 mln tpa of ethylene.
Stan Knez, Technip's Senior Vice President, Technip Stone & Webster Process Technology, said, "Following the selection of our ethylene technology during the early stage of this project, Technip is pleased to expand our role by supplying the most critical part of the cracker, the furnaces. In addition, Technip'sNorth America region also is playing a significant project role, having been selected, with Fluor, to provide engineering, procurement and construction management for the cracker and derivatives complex."
03-Nov-14 
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