Around the World

in 30 Minutes
A KBR Olefins Project Update
Curtis Eng

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Around the World in 30 Minutes

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Around the World in 30 Minutes

A KBR
Olefins Project
Update
Curtis Eng

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2008 Technology Conference Announcements

Selective Cracking Optimum REcovery

SCORE™

Significant Achievements

♦ UNITED plant startup 9 Successful and completed

♦ Thai Olefins startup 9 Successful and completed
♦ Dow furnace startup 9 Successful and completed
♦ Daqing furnace startup 9 Successful and completed

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Olefins Activities Since 2005
Ethylene Plant Revamp and Expansions
♦ UNITED expansion ♦ LG Chemical expansion
♦ Thai Olefins expansion ♦ Lotte expansion

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UNITED Ethylene Plant Expansion

♦ Original design:
ƒ 1,000,000 MTY ethylene
ƒ Startup in 2004, on-spec
ethylene in less than 24 hrs
ƒ SCORETM furnaces and
recovery section
ƒ LSTK consortium project
♦ Expansion achieved:
ƒ 35% increase in 2006 to
1,350,000 MTY
ƒ 2 additional SCORETM
furnaces

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Thai Olefins Expansion

♦ Original design:
ƒ 300,000 MTY ethylene
ƒ Gas cracker
ƒ Startup in 2004
ƒ SCORETM furnaces
and recovery section
♦ Expansion achieved
ƒ 18% increase in 2006
to 390,000 MTY

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LG Chemical Expansion

♦ Original design:
ƒ Originally owned by
Hyundai, Daeson, Korea
ƒ Liquids cracker
ƒ 350,000 MTY ethylene
♦ Revamp design:
ƒ 66% expansion to 750,000
MTY
ƒ Construction completed
mid 2007 – successful
startup capacity reached
ƒ Startup in 2007

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Olefins Activities Since 2005
Pyrolysis Furnace Revamp and Additions
♦ Mitsubishi Chemical Company (MCC) Japan
♦ Chandra Asri, Indonesia
♦ Borealis, Sweden

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MCC Additional Furnace

♦ Single furnace addition
♦ 150,000 MTY ethylene
♦ Naphtha and gas oil feeds
♦ Successful startup in 2006

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Chandra Asri Additional Furnace
♦ Single furnace addition
♦ 150,000 MTY ethylene
♦ Naphtha feed
♦ Startup in 2007

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Borealis Furnace Revamp

♦ Original Kellogg
Millisecond furnace
♦ Stenungsund,
Sweden
♦ 64,000 MTY ethylene
♦ Additional SCORE
features added
ƒ Increased capacity
ƒ Increased reliability

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Olefins Activity Since 2005
New Plants
♦ Lanzhou Petrochemical startup
♦ Saudi Kayan award

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Lanzhou Petrochemical Ethylene Plant

♦ First complete SCORE unit

in China (furnaces plus
recovery)
♦ Engineering package by
KBR, completion by
HQCEC
♦ Startup in 4th quarter 2006
♦ 450,000 MTY ethylene
♦ Flexible feed furnaces, gas
to naphtha to gas oil
♦ “Hybrid” cracking

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Saudi Kayan Ethylene Plant

♦ Saudi Kayan Petrochemical

Company
♦ Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia
♦ 1,350,000 MTY Ethylene
ƒ Propylene & Benzene
♦ Butane / ethane feed
♦ Global execution centers

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SUPERFLEX Update

♦ Sasol
SUPERFLEX unit
startup
♦ JiHua
SUPERFLEX
award (2nd
commercial unit)

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What is SUPERFLEX?
♦ A fluid bed catalytic cracker for petrochemicals
♦ Upgrade low value feeds to olefins with a proprietary catalyst
♦ Produces olefins and aromatic gasoline
♦ Requires C4-C8 olefinic feedstocks
Aromatic gasoline
R
C4-C8 E
Light C Propylene
Olefinic O
Feeds V Ethylene
E
R Light gas
Y

Recycle (can contain paraffins and naphthenes)

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Sasol SUPERFLEX Startup

♦ World’s 1st commercial

SUPERFLEX unit
♦ Located at Secunda,
South Africa
♦ 250,000 MTY propylene
♦ C6/C7 olefinic feeds
♦ Part of Project Turbo
ƒ SUPERFLEX for
olefins
ƒ Ethylene plant
expansion
ƒ New PE and PP plants
♦ Startup in 2006

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JiHua SUPERFLEX Project

♦ World’s 2nd commercial

SUPERFLEX unit
♦ Driven by the need for
regional propylene in
China
♦ 200,000 MTY propylene
♦ Butenes and light cracked
naphtha feed
♦ Startup in late 2009
Site of JiHua
SUPERFLEX Unit

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Olefins Development Activities

♦ Decoking to firebox for SCORE
3D Modeling furnaces
Decoke to
ƒ Plans for Implementation
Firebox
♦ ExxonMobil alliance
ƒ LoNox burners
ƒ Largest liquids furnace
♦ Advanced Catalytic Olefins (ACO)
process

♦ Other olefins process in

ACO development
Converter

Straight Recycle Other

Catalytic
Run C4-C6
Olefins
Naphtha Non
Aromatics
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Olefins Activities – Truly Global
♦ Successful startup of several new units ♦ Commercialization of SUPERFLEX at
Sasol
♦ A total of 102 SCORE furnaces in
♦ Award of 2nd SUPERFLEX unit in China
operation or under design
♦ Roll out of a new promising technology,
♦ Design of the world’s largest single train ACO
cracker at 1,350,000 MTY ethylene for
Saudi Kayan

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Your Olefins Team

Tim Challand Khaled Abu Nasrah
President Worldwide Sales
Technology VP Downstream

Ron Birkhoff
ME Sales

Curtis Eng
Director Howard Hall
Olefins Technology Project Resources

John Owens
Engineering
Resources

TBA Mike Tallman

Manager Manager Larry Gilbert
Olefins Catalytic Olefins Furnace Specialist

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Thank you very much…

Questions?

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