Toyo Engineering Corporation has been awarded a contract for a Steam Cracker Complex (SCC) project in Malaysia by PRPC Refinery and Cracker, a subsidiary under the Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) group, Malaysia’s national oil and gas company. The SCC will be part of PETRONAS’ Refinery and Petrochemicals Integrated Development (RAPID) project in Pengerang, Johor, Malaysia. The contract has been awarded on a lump sum turnkey basis and is scheduled for completion by mid-2019.
RAPID is part of the bigger PETRONAS Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) development worth an estimated USD 27B, which comprises RAPID and its associated facilities including the Pengerang Co-generation Plant (PCP), Re-gasification Terminal 2 (RGT2), air separation unit (ASU), Raw Water Supply Project (PAMER), crude and product tanks (SPV2) as well as central and shared utilities and facilities (UF). RAPID will consist of a 300,000 barrels per stream day refinery and petrochemical complex with a combined capacity of producing 7.7Mt per annum of various grades of products, including differentiated and specialty chemicals products such as synthetic rubbers and high-grade polymers.