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| Aker Kvaerner to start work on new project for PetroChina Norwegian firm Aker Kvaerner has been awarded a contract with China Petroleum Material & Equipment Corporation (a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation) for the basic engineering design and supply of certain equipment for a new polypropylene plant at the PetroChina GuangXi Petrochemical Company complex in GuangXi Province, People's Republic of China. Aker Kvaerner is providing the basic engineering design, together with certain offshore equipment, from its offices in the Netherlands. GuangXi is an integrated refinery complex with downstream facilities for the production of a wide range of products. The new polypropylene plant will have a capacity of 200,000 metric tons per annum (tpa). Plant start-up is expected in 2008. The project will utilise The Dow Chemical Company's UNIPOL polypropylene technology, one of the core technologies in the Aker Kvaerner process portfolio. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |