Houston—KBR Inc. said March 9 it has been awarded a new contract for proprietary equipment and also has restarted work under the contract awarded by Italy’s Tecnimont SpA previously announced in December 2011 for the License and Basic Engineering Design (BED) of a new ammonia plant to be built at Aswan in Egypt (GM Dec. 30, 2011). Under the original project plans, the unit was to have a 1,200 mt/d capacity. The restarted project is to be built by Egypt’s Chemical Industries Holding Co. (Kima) as part of its Kima 2 complex, which will include a urea melt unit and a granulation unit. KBR is providing Tecnimont with post-BED support and proprietary equipment for the new ammonia 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, KBR said. The ammonia project is expected to reach provisional acceptance in 34 months. Revenue associated with the project is undisclosed.
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