Fluor said it will gain $3B in design and construction work on the ethylene and derivatives complex planned in Alberta, with major building to start next year.
Nine prefab modules, each nearly 3,700 tons, were delivered by a private Chinese contractor to a 40-million-tpy ethylene plant near Shanghai; U.S. market is next.
A second ethane cracker in the vast Marcellus and Utica shale basins took a major step forward with the March 12 announcement that Thailand-based PTT Global Chemical and its new partner, South Korea-based Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd., have nearly secured 500 acres on the Ohio River in Belmont County, Ohio, for their planned petrochemical complex.
