Under the contract, the company will be responsible for the engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction for the LACC ethane cracker, which will produce one million tons of ethylene per year. The contract scope also includes supply of spheres and fabricated pipe spools.
In September, the LACC JV awarded early works contract to CB&I to provide additional engineering services for the proposed ethane cracker project in Lake Charles, Louisiana, US.
This contract comes on heels of CB&I’s previous supply of its ethylene technology and front-end engineering design (FEED) services to the project.
CB&I president and CEO Philip Asherman said: "CB&I is pleased to have been selected as the primary EPC contractor for this significant U.S. Gulf Coast ethylene project.
"We have worked closely with Axiall Corporation and Lotte Chemical to develop this project from concept through technology and now EPC, and we look forward to helping them build on their global ethylene capabilities in the North American market."
The complex will feature CB&I’s ethylene technology, including SRT cracking heaters and recovery section design with low-pressure separation and mixed refrigeration.
The US and South Korean firms announced intent to partner on the project in February 2014, and formed the joint-venture in June.
Lotte earlier said it plans to build a monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant adjacent to the proposed cracker. It currently operates three crackers producing more than 2.8 million tonnes of ethylene annually in Asia.
