Houston-KBR reports that it has been awarded a contract by Egypt Hydrocarbon Corp. to complete a front-end engineering design (FEED) project for an ammonium nitrate plant being developed by Carbon Holdings at its proposed petrochemical complex. The complex will be located 15.5 miles from Suez, Egypt, near the Red Sea. KBR will perform engineering services for both the process units, as well as the utilities and offsite for the plant. Currently, a single-train process plant is planned for installation, with a nominal capacity of 1,060 mt/d of AN. The process design of the nitric acid and AN units will apply the proven technologies of Espindesa, a unit of Tecnicas Reunidas of Spain. KBR said the FEED project follows its completion of various prefeasibility and pre-FEED studies for the petrochemical complex’s proposed plants, including AN and other chemical and petrochemical facilities. KBR has also completed a master plot plan study and a study of off-plot options for the complex.
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