Kuwait’s state petrochemicals firm PIC this week awarded a $34mn front end engineering design (FEED) contract for the Third Olefins and Second Aromatics projects in Kuwait to UK’s Amec Foster Wheeler.

The plants will be built at Al-Zour in the Kuwaiti part of the Partitioned Neutral Zone between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to be integrated with a refinery that is being built by state refiner KNPC. Start-up of the olefins and aromatics projects is scheduled for 2022. (CONTINUED - 844 WORDS)