State-owned Petronas has let a front-end engineering design contract to Technip for its proposed refinery and petrochemical project at Pengerang in Johor, Malaysia (OGJ Online, May 13, 2011).
The project, called RAPID for refinery and petrochemical integrated development, includes a 300,000 b/d refinery.
In addition to gasoline and diesel meeting European specifications, the refinery would produce naphtha and LPG as feedstocks for the petrochemical complex.
Bob Tippee has been chief editor of Oil & Gas Journal since January 1999 and a member of the Journal staff since October 1977. Before joining the magazine, he worked as a reporter at the Tulsa World and served for four years as an officer in the US Air Force. A native of St. Louis, he holds a degree in journalism from the University of Tulsa.
