McDermott International Ltd. obtained an extended basic engineering contract for an ethane cracking project in the Russian part of the Gulf of Finland from China National Chemical Engineering & Construction Corporation Seven, Ltd (CC7).
The natural gas processing chemical plant is the world’s biggest ethylene integration project, consists of two ethylene cracking trains with an annual capacity of 1.4 million tons each. Baltic Chemical Plant (BCP) owns the plant.
Under the contract, McDermott has to service concept design to commissioning and start-up. It will execute the early works package from its office in The Hague, the Netherlands, and in Brno, Czech Republic.