Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has entered into a contract to supply its proprietary ethylene technology and process-design package to PTTGC America LLC (PTTGCA), a subsidiary of PTT Global Chemical, Thailand’s largest integrated petrochemical and refining company, for a grassroots ethane cracker to be located in Belmont County, Ohio. The facility’s cracking capacity will be 1,000,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr)
The plant, which will use low-cost ethane from the region’s shale deposits, will be part of a major shale-based petrochemical complex to be built by PTTGCA, which is expected to make a final investment decision in 2016 or 2017.
Key technology components include Technip’s proprietary USC furnaces preferred for high-capacity, low-cost gas-cracking capabilities as well as Technip’s well-established ethylene recovery system.
The project will be executed by Technip’s operating center in Houston, Tex.