CB&I has been awarded a contract valued at approximately USD 1.3B by Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc. to provide engineering, procurement and construction for an ethane cracker project located in Port Arthur, Texas. The new cracker will have an ethylene capacity of one MMT per year. CB&I was previously awarded a contract for front-end engineering and design services and the ethylene technology license. The facility will utilize six SRT-III® (Short Residence Time) pyrolysis heaters.
This award is the result of substantial collaboration between the two companies that ensured the project design is fit-for-purpose, significantly reducing costs. The cracker project, the fourth new ethane project for CB&I on the U.S. Gulf Coast, will allow Total to capitalize on the abundance of shale gas in the U.S. and realize significant operational synergies.
