Contracts and Projects Tracker: Feb 2012
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Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Qatar Petrochemical Co. (QAPCO) are to develop a new petrochemical complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City. The project includes a world-scale steam cracker, with the feedstock coming from natural gas plants in Ras Laffan. Due for completion in 2018, it will produce 1,400ktpa of ethylene, 850ktpa of HDPE, 430ktpa of LLDPE, 760ktpa of polypropylene, 83ktpa of butadiene. QP has an 80% equity interest in the project, QAPCO 20%. The complex will help Qatar to exploit its abundant natural gas resources.
The BP -operated Azerbaijan International Operating Co. has awarded Emerson Process Management a ’multi-million-dollar’ contract to automate a new offshore platform in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea. (More on Process Engineering )
Alfa Laval has won an SEK120m order to supply plate heat exchangers to a nuclear power plant in Russia. Delivery is scheduled to start in 2013 and be completed during 2015. The units will be used in the reactor island cooling systems, where some of them will operate in the system that cools down the main reactor in case of any shutdown.