Fluor Corp., Irving, Texas, has been awarded the front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by Egypt’s state energy firm, Enppi, for the offsites and utilities portion of the main plant complex and support services for the Waphco phosphoric acid production plant at Abu Tartour, in the Egyptian province of New Valley. Fluor will book the undisclosed contract value in the first quarter of 2018.
Fluor said it will be working with Enppi as an integrated team and that the company will fast-track the FEED for the plant, which will use resources from the Abu Tartour mine to produce merchant-grade phosphoric acid. The project scope includes all process facilities, including a sulfuric acid plant, utilities with a cogeneration system, storage, and other required units. Once completed, the facility will produce 500,000 mt/y of wet process phosphoric acid.