Houston — KBR said Dec. 28 that it has been awarded a contract by Tecnimont S.p.A. for the License and Basic Engineering Design (BED) of a new ammonia plant to be built by Chemical Industries Holding Co. (Kima) in Aswan, Egypt. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide Kima with a license for its proprietary Purifier™ Ammonia Technology and related engineering services for Kima’s new plant. The plant is being built on a fast-track basis and will support regional development plans in Aswan, as well as Egypt’s drive to build modern fertilizer complexes. On Dec. 22, KBR announced that it had been awarded a contract by First Global Company to revamp the North Fertilizer Plant in Baiji, Iraq. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide a license for its proprietary Ammonia Process and related engineering services to increase the plant capacity to 120 percent of the original design. The original plant, which started up in 1989, was designed to produce 1,000 mt/d ammonia.
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