INSIDE LOOK: THE $8.5B TEXAS POLYETHYLENE PLANT AND ITS CONTRACTORS SERIES

goods including food and medicine packaging, per Engineering News Record TexasLouisiana. Golden Triangle Polymers Company LLC, a joint venture of Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. and QatarEnergy, have plans to begin and finish construction at the plant in 2026.

GTP’s owner said that nearly 4,500 construction jobs will cater to the project. CPChem, who will be the acting manager over construction, has a team of contractors to occupy different projects.

PCL Industrial Construction Co. is building seven plant cracking furnaces, while Technip Stone & Webster Process Technology Inc. is handling engineering and procurement for the furnaces, the owner says. A joint venture of JGC America Inc. and Kiewit Energy Group Inc. is responsible for engineering, procurement, and construction of additional portions of the ethane cracker. The contracting team also includes a joint venture of Zachry Industrial Inc. and DL USA Inc., for engineering, procurement, and construction of polyethylene units, according to Golden Triangle Polymers.

Utilities and infrastructure are under the scope of BMZ Third Coast Partners, a joint venture of Burns & McDonnell Engineering Co. and Zachry Industrial Inc. W.T. Byler Co. is managing heavy civil work, as well as construction of a rail and storage-in-transit yard. Emerson Process Management is handling the plant’s automation.

The plans call for the facility to include a 2,080 KTA ethane cracker that will be among the largest in the world, according to Emerson, as well as two 1,000 KTA high-density polyethylene units. CPChem will operate the plant.

The location, near Port Arthur on the Gulf Coast, was picked in part for its access to Permian Basin shale natural gas liquid reserves, the owners previously said. Ethane crackers use natural gas to produce ethylene. CPChem and QatarEnergy announced the partnership in 2019. They are also currently building a petrochemical facility in Qatar that they say will include the largest ethane cracker in the Middle East.

Source: Engineering News Record TexasLouisiana