PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (CAP) subsidiary PT Chandra Asri Perkasa (CAP2) has let contracts to McDermott International Inc. to provide process technology for CAP2’s planned petrochemical complex in Indonesia.
As part of the contract for what will be CAP2’s second petrochemical complex in the region, McDermott will deliver licensing and basic engineering packages for its Lummus olefins technology, including Short Residence Time (SRT) ethylene heater design and critical supply, and for butadiene extraction technology, the service provider said.
Once completed, the complex’s steam cracker will produce 1.1 million tonnes/year of ethylene and 600,000 tpy of propylene using proprietary Lummus highly selective SRT-VII cracking heaters, while its butadiene extraction unit will be equipped to produce 175,000 tpy of butadiene using BASF Corp.-Lummus butadiene extraction technology, McDermott said.
CAP2’s complex—which will join CAP’s existing petrochemical complex at Ciwandan, Cilegon, in Indonesia’s Banten province—comes as part of the operator’s program to boost local petrochemical production to help meet rising Indonesian demand, McDermott said.
The service provider did not provide a detailed timeframe for its work on the proposed complex but did value the combined contracts at between $1 million and $50 million.
CAP, a subsidiary of PT Barito Pacific Tbk, Jakarta, previously let a contract to McDermott (formerly CB&I) to supply materials for the planned revamp of existing furnaces at the naphtha cracker of its 860,000-tpy Ciwandan ethylene plant to expand capacity to 900,000 tpy by first-quarter 2020 (OGJ Online, July 10, 2017).
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