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| Amec appointed to design coal-to-chemical complex in China  British construction giant Amec has been appointed by the Shenhua Ningxia Coal Group (SNCG) to carry out the initial engineering design for the offsite and utility facilities on a US$1.5 billion coal-to-chemical production complex in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in north west China. The value of the contract has not been announced. Amec has been working as SNCG's project management contractor for the overall facility since early 2006 and this latest award builds on the close and successful relationship developed with SNCG during that time.The new facility, which is designed to produce 540,000 tonnes of polypropylene per year and which will include a coal gasifier plant, a methanol and methanol-to-propylene unit and a polypropylene unit, is scheduled to be completed in early 2009. Polypropylene is a chemical product usually derived from oil refining and ethylene processing but the project will use coal as the feedstock, which will come from large reserves in the Ningxia area. Amec has worked in China for more than 70 years. Recent oil and gas projects include the SECCO Ethylene plant, a technical services contract for Petrochina's Dushanzi project and the provision of project management services for the development of a US$1.6bn grassroots refinery in Qinzhou in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, south-western China. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |