KBR's Phenol Technology Selected by Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo for Rabigh II Project Feasibility Study
KBR today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) and Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (Sumitomo) to provide basic engineering and related services for its phenol technology in support of a detailed feasibility study for development of the companies' joint Rabigh II Project. The project is planned as a major expansion of the existing petroleum refining and petrochemical production complex in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia.
KBR will provide a basic engineering package and related services to facilitate the feasibility study, a joint initiative between Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo. The study is designed to evaluate the viability of investment in the Rabigh II Project, which includes an ethane cracker, a new aromatics complex and various petrochemical units including phenol and acetone.
"KBR looks forward to participating in its second grassroots phenol project in Saudi Arabia and building on our existing technology portfolio in the Middle East market," said Tim Challand, President, KBR Technology. "Upon successful completion of the feasibility study, we also look forward to providing our innovative phenol technology to the project and assisting Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo in achieving their production goals for Rabigh II."
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In 1901, Morris W. Kellogg opened a tiny pipe fabrication business in New York that grew to become a world-class engineering firm known as M.W. Kellogg.
In 1919 when brothers George and Herman Brown partnered with their brother-in-law, Dan Root, to start a construction business called Brown and Root.
Brown and Root was purchased by the oilfield services company Halliburton in 1962.In 1988 Dresser Industries, a provider of integrated services and project management for the oil and gas industry, acquired M.W. Kellogg and 10 years later, Dresser was purchased by Halliburton. As a result, Dresser's engineering subsidiary, M.W. Kellogg, combined with Halliburton's construction subsidiary, Brown and Root, to form the subsidiary known as Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc.
KBR remained a part of Halliburton for 44 years until it officially separated in April 2007 to become a stand-alone company.