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Wison wins EPC contract in Saudi Arabia

| By Mary Bailey

Wison Engineering Services Co. (Shanghai; www.wison-engineering.com), one of the leading chemical engineering, procurement and construction management (EPC) service and technology providers in China, announces that the company has won an EPC contract for an ethylene oxide and ethylene glycol (EOEG) project in Saudi Arabia.

According to the contract, Wison Engineering will be responsible for the expansion of the EOEG facilities and auxiliary units. The project is scheduled to be mechanically completed in Q3 of 2017. The project kick-off meeting has recently been held at the Shanghai Headquarters of Wison Engineering.

EOEG is one of the mainstream technologies being used in glycol production globally, and is also an important process of ethylene downstream industry. Wison is now providing EPC services for a 70,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) oxalic acid and 10 m.t./yr ethylene glycol project using tailgas of yellow-phosphorus mining production as feedstock in Guizhou Province in China. The project adopts syngas to EG technology via oxalate, which is another mainstream technology in glycol production. The award of this EOEG contract will reinforce Wison’s project execution capabilities in glycol facilities featuring different mainstream technologies, and further enhance the company’s competitiveness in the global petrochemical industry.