21 January 2004
Doha: Qatar Petroleum (QP) and LG Engineering and Construction Corporation yesterday signed the Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for a Linear Alkyl Benzene (LAB) plant project worth more than $235m.
Scheduled as a fast track, the project is expected to be commissioned during the first quarter of 2006 and the plant is to be located at Mesaieed Industrial City.
When fully developed, the capacity of the project to produce LAB, widely used in household detergents, will be 100,000 metric tonnes per year (mtpa), which will be produced from normal-paraffin and benzene.
The n-paraffin requirement of 80,000mtpa is to be produced from kerosene, a product of the QP Refinery and benzene requirement of 36,000mtpa will be produced from treated pyrogasoline produced by Qatar Petrochemical Company and from reformate supplied by QP Refinery.
H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Energy and Industry, and S R Woo, CEO and executive vice- president, LG Corporation, signed the EPC contract.
Also present at the function were M I Chang, vice-president, LG Corporation and Abdullah H Salatt, chairman, executive committee and other senior officials from both the companies.
Speaking on the occasion, Abdullah bin Hamad said the new plant’s location was selected to be within the QP Refinery boundaries to benefit from the existing utilities such as electric power, cooling water, instrument air, jetty and other facilities in order to reduce the capital cost of the project.
New tanks for intermediate and finished products, utilities and product distribution facilities would be constructed on export terminal No 4 in Mesaieed Port.
The plant has been designed to produce high standard products in compliance with strict regulatory requirements of international environmental standards, said Abdullah bin Hamad.
He said the project phases that were completed before the EPC agreement, included economic feasibility and product marketing study and selection of UOP-UK as Technology Licensor, basic design package FEED set by Foster Wheeler-UK and the EPC tender award to a leading international company in the field.
He said following the technical and commercial evaluation, the EPC contract was awarded to LG Engineering and Construction Corporation.
QP strictly complies with the country’s economic and social development plan, with oil, gas and petrochemical industries as its backbone, he said.
He noted that in this context, QP proceeds on two parallel approaches first in pursuing excellence in performance to be on an equal standing with advanced industrial countries and achieving high income level for Qatari citizen and second, in the training and development of Qataris to be capable of coping with the most advanced technology.
Doha: Qatar Petroleum (QP) and LG Engineering and Construction Corporation yesterday signed the Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for a Linear Alkyl Benzene (LAB) plant project worth more than $235m.
Scheduled as a fast track, the project is expected to be commissioned during the first quarter of 2006 and the plant is to be located at Mesaieed Industrial City.
When fully developed, the capacity of the project to produce LAB, widely used in household detergents, will be 100,000 metric tonnes per year (mtpa), which will be produced from normal-paraffin and benzene.
The n-paraffin requirement of 80,000mtpa is to be produced from kerosene, a product of the QP Refinery and benzene requirement of 36,000mtpa will be produced from treated pyrogasoline produced by Qatar Petrochemical Company and from reformate supplied by QP Refinery.
H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Energy and Industry, and S R Woo, CEO and executive vice- president, LG Corporation, signed the EPC contract.
Also present at the function were M I Chang, vice-president, LG Corporation and Abdullah H Salatt, chairman, executive committee and other senior officials from both the companies.
Speaking on the occasion, Abdullah bin Hamad said the new plant’s location was selected to be within the QP Refinery boundaries to benefit from the existing utilities such as electric power, cooling water, instrument air, jetty and other facilities in order to reduce the capital cost of the project.
New tanks for intermediate and finished products, utilities and product distribution facilities would be constructed on export terminal No 4 in Mesaieed Port.
The plant has been designed to produce high standard products in compliance with strict regulatory requirements of international environmental standards, said Abdullah bin Hamad.
He said the project phases that were completed before the EPC agreement, included economic feasibility and product marketing study and selection of UOP-UK as Technology Licensor, basic design package FEED set by Foster Wheeler-UK and the EPC tender award to a leading international company in the field.
He said following the technical and commercial evaluation, the EPC contract was awarded to LG Engineering and Construction Corporation.
QP strictly complies with the country’s economic and social development plan, with oil, gas and petrochemical industries as its backbone, he said.
He noted that in this context, QP proceeds on two parallel approaches first in pursuing excellence in performance to be on an equal standing with advanced industrial countries and achieving high income level for Qatari citizen and second, in the training and development of Qataris to be capable of coping with the most advanced technology.
© The Peninsula 2004
