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Kellogg Brown & Root, Technip Will Build Petrochemicals Plant In Qatar
DALLAS, Texas - Brown & Root International , a subsidiary of Kellogg Brown & Root, with TECHNIP, have been selected by Q-Chem to design and build a grassroots petrochemicals plant in Qatar. The plant will be built in Mesaieed and is scheduled for completion in mid-2002. Kellogg Brown & Root is a business unit of Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL).
Q-Chem is a joint venture of Qatar General Petroleum Corporation(QGPC) and Phillips Investment Company, a subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum Company.
The project involves the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a 500,000 ton-a-year ethylene cracker, a two-train polyethylene plant capable of producing over 450,000 tons-a-year of high- and/or low-density polyethylene, a 47,000 ton-a-year hexene-1 unit, and associated utilities and offsite facilities. Kellogg Brown & Root will supply the ethylene technology, and Phillips will provide the proprietary technology for the hexene-1 and polyethylene units.
The Q-Chem facility will receive its ethane feedstock from the NGL-4 plant, which is currently being tendered by QGPC.
A formal EPC contract award is expected to be executed in September upon Q-Chem's receipt of requisite approvals for the project from its Board.
Engineering work will be completed jointly by Kellogg Brown & Root and TECHNIP in Houston and Paris, and construction activity is scheduled to begin late this year. Staffing is expected to peak at approximately 3,000 personnel about mid-2001.
Headquartered in Houston, Kellogg Brown & Root is an international, technology-based engineering and construction company providing a full spectrum of industry-leading services to the hydrocarbon, chemical, energy, forest products, manufacturing, and mining and minerals industries. Halliburton Company is one of the world's largest diversified energy services, engineering, construction, maintenance and equipment companies.
With a staff of 10,000 and a turnover of about US $3 billion, TECHNIP is one of the world's leading full-service engineering and construction groups working internationally in its core business of hydrocarbons and petrochemicals. Headquartered in Paris, the Group also has major engineering centers in Italy, Germany, the USA, Abu Dhabi and Malaysia.
Contact
Cindy Viktorin
Halliburton Company
Public Relations
(p) 713.676.7125
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