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INEOS awards Antwerp PDH plant FEED contract to SK E&C
SK Engineering & Construction (SK E&C) has become the first Korean builder to enter the Western European propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant market by winning a FEED project from INEOS for a PDH plant in Belgium. Expected to come on stream in 2023, the PDH unit is at the centre of Ineos’ planned €3bn investment in the industrial port of Antwerp.
The project is to conduct FEED work for a PDH plant with an annual production capacity of 750,000 tons at the Antwerp Petrochemical Complex, 50 km north of the Belgian capital of Brussels. Antwerp is Europe's three major petrochemical centers along with Amsterdam and Rotterdam. SK E&C will carry out the FEED project for about 12 months. The company was also selected as the preferred bidder for an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to carry out the mammoth-sized project.
The new complex will be collocated with Ineos' existing sites in Lillo, Antwerp, and will be connected by pipeline to a number of Ineos ethylene and propylene derivatives units in central and northern Europe. Ineos announced its decision to build a “world-scale” 1.25 million-tonne-per-annum ethane cracker and the PDH unit in Antwerp in January this year. At the time, the company said McDermott would supply the technology for the PDH plant.
The PDH process removes hydrogen from propane gas to produce propylene, a key feedstock for the manufacture of polypropylene thermoplastic polymers and acrylonitrile organic compounds. The efficient production of hydrogen as a by-product is increasingly becoming a product of interest for future zero carbon fuel and energy systems for transportation.
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