Shaw Selected to Provide Basic Engineering Support for Fischer-Tropsch Units
21 April 2009 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SGR) today announced its Energy &
Chemicals Group has been selected by Sasol to provide basic
engineering support for two Fischer-Tropsch units.
Shaw is providing the basic engineering package for the
Fischer-Tropsch unit of Sasol�s Wax Expansion Project in Sasolburg,
South Africa. Shaw's scope of work includes proprietary equipment
design and technology optimization. The project is expected to
increase Sasol�s production of medium waxes and liquid paraffins by
approximately 50 percent.
In addition, Shaw is providing engineering services to Sasol
Technology�s Fischer Tropsch Licensing group (FTL). The FTL is
performing a feasibility study for the Sasol and Shenhua-Ningxia
Coal Company partnership. The feasibility study examines the
potential for an 80,000 barrels-per-day coal-to-liquids plant in
the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China. Specifically, Shaw is
supporting the Fischer-Tropsch, water treatment, wax treatment and
heavy ends recovery areas of the study with the FTL.
�Shaw has worked with Sasol on Fischer-Tropsch technology for
more than 30 years and has designed approximately 96 percent of all
Fischer-Tropsch units in the world,� said Lou Pucher, president of
Shaw�s Energy & Chemicals Group. �The two contracts further
solidify Shaw�s long-term partnership with Sasol in the continued
development and expansion of this technology.�
The value of Shaw's contracts, which were included in the
company's previously announced backlog of unfilled orders, was not
disclosed.
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