Jacobs lands contract from Jubail Chemical Industrial

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received an award from the Jubail Chemical Industrial Co. to provide technical and project management services for its existing epichlorohydrin plant expansion and a new epichlorohydrin plant at the Jubail, Saudi Arabia site. JANA is a wholly owned subsidiary of NAMA Chemicals (NAMA). Officials did not disclose the contract value. Under the agreement, Jacobs is providing technical and project management services for both inside battery limits (ISBL) and outside battery limits (OSBL). The ISBL services involve debottlenecking of their existing epichlorohydrin plant to achieve increased capacity, and the OSBL services cover all utilities and the tankage area. Jacobs’ scope also includes cost estimates preparation and the project management support for JANA’s new epichlorohydrin plant, to be built at the same site in Jubail. This expansion is intended to increase the epoxy resins production capacity to 240,000 ton/yr at the Jubail site. NAMA is a Saudi joint stock company operating since 1992 in the chemicals and petrochemicals sector.