Technip has signed a deal to build an ethylene plant in Shuaiba, Kuwait.

With a production capacity of 850,000 tonnes per year, the plant will play an important role in Kuwait’s programme to increase the country’s ethylene derivatives production by 2008.
Technip said it signed the Memorandum of Under-standing with The Kuwait Olefins Company  (TKOC), a joint venture between The Dow Chemical Company (Dow), Petrochemical Industries Company, Kuwait (PIC) and Kuwaiti Private Companies, for the construction of the ethylene plant at their new Olefins-2 Petro-chemical Complex in Shuaiba.
Technip’s engineering centre in Rome (Italy) will execute the contract, which includes detail engineering, procurement and supply of equipment and materials, construction and pre-commissioning.
The project – scheduled to be completed early 2008 – will be based on Technip’s in-house technology. The basic engineering for the proprietary SMK cracking furnaces, as well as the front-end design for the recovery section have already been provided by Technip’s centre in Claremont, California.