Jacobs to design petrochem plant
01 August 2012
JACOBS Engineering Group has been awarded a design contract by Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Company, an affiliate of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic), to build a plant in Saudi Arabia’s industrial city of Jubail.
The contract involves developing a process design package (PDP) and front-end engineering design (Feed) package for the construction of an ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) plant.
Officials did not disclose the value of the contract that will be executed from Jacobs’ Winnersh, UK, and Al Khobar offices.
UHMWPE is used in many industrial applications including batteries and industrial fibres. The plant will have a production capacity of 35,000 tonnes per year using ethylene sourced from Kayan’s existing olefins plant and is of strategic importance as Sabic is to use its own technology.
Jacobs Group vice-president Bob Irvin said: “We are delighted to have been awarded this high-profile project, which we take to be both a statement of our client’s confidence in our ability to deliver strategic projects of this nature and the commencement of what we hope will be a significant and long-term relationship with Sabic that will drive mutual benefits to our businesses and build upon our presence and future capability in Saudi Arabia.”
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