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| Eastman Chemical selects Fluor to work on project in Texas Fluor Corporation was selected by Eastman Chemical Company to provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) work for a $1.6 billion gasification project along the Texas Gulf Coast. The initial FEED scope has a contract value of $12 million. The facility will be located in Beaumont, Texas, and is projected to be online in 2011. It will produce low-cost intermediate chemicals, including methanol, hydrogen and ammonia. Eastman Chemical will be the developer, operator, co-investor and customer of the project, which primarily will use petroleum coke instead of natural gas to produce industrial chemicals used in a variety of consumer-end products. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |