Chevron Phillips Chemical Company (Chevron Phillips Chemical) contracted JGC/Fluor to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for the company’s ethane cracker to be built in Baytown, TX, United States as part of Chevron Phillips Chemical’s U.S. Gulf Coast Petrochemicals Project. The facility will have an annual capacity of 1.5M tons per year and will be the largest ethylene plant in the world. The project calls for engineering, procurement and construction of the ethylene plant. The project will be executed under a lump sum conversion contract. The value of the contract was not disclosed.
The new ethylene plant features world-scale ethane cracking and is to be constructed at Chevron Phillips Chemicals existing facility in Baytown, Texas. JGC, as leader, established a joint venture with Fluor Corporation to execute the project.
JGC will be leading engineering and procurement for the core facilities of the process plant, while Fluor will be leading engineering and procurement for the outside battery limit scope as well as direct hire construction for the entire cracker project.
The licensor of the ethane cracker is Technip, former Shaw Stone & Webster.
