McDermott International, Inc. (MDR) has been awarded a sizeable technology contract for Map Ta Phut Olefins Co., Ltd.’s (MOC) petrochemical plant in Rayong Province, Thailand. MOC is a JV company of SCG Chemicals Company Limited, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of SCG, and the Dow Chemical Company.
McDermott will provide the basic engineering and license of Lummus’ olefins technology and will design and supply the proprietary SRT® III heater for the MOC Debottleneck Project, a parallel gas cracker added to increase plant capacity, which will utilize Lummus’ side cracker technology, including a low pressure chilling train and enhanced binary refrigeration.
McDermott’s Lummus Technology is a licensor of proprietary petrochemicals, refining, gasification and gas processing technologies, and a supplier of proprietary catalysts and related engineering.