The Dow Chemical Company, (Dow) and Petrochemical Industries Company, Kuwait (PIC) have contracted Technip USA Corporation, a fully owned affiliate of Technip, to provide engineering services covering cracking furnaces and the recovery section of the new Ethylene Plant, planned for the Olefins-2 Petrochemicals Complex to be constructed in Shuaiba, Kuwait which is a Joint Venture between Dow and PIC.
The plant will be designed based on Technip’s ethylene technology provided by Technip Claremont in California.
The selection of Technip ethylene technology is recognition by Dow (world’s largest ethylene producer) and PIC of Technip’s capabilities in process technology, design and engineering of world scale ethylene plants.