Wison Engineering, a leading chemical engineering, procurement and construction management service and technology provider in China, said it has won an EPC ((engineering, procurement and construction) contract for an ethylene oxide and ethylene glycol project in Saudi Arabia.

As per the contract, Wison Engineering will be responsible for the expansion of the EOEG facilities and auxiliary units. The project is scheduled to be mechanically completed in the third quarter of 2017.

The project kick-off meeting has recently been held at the Shanghai Headquarters of Wison Engineering.

EOEG is one of the mainstream technologies being used in glycol production globally, and is also an important process of ethylene downstream industry.

Under ths deal, Wison is now providing EPC services for a 70kta oxalic acid and 10kta ethylene glycol project using tail gas of yellow phosphorus mining production as feedstock in Guizhou Province in China.

The project adopts syngas to EG technology via oxalate, which is another mainstream technology in glycol production.

The award of this EOEG contract will reinforce Wison's project execution capabilities in glycol facilities featuring different mainstream technologies, and further enhance the company's competitiveness in the global petrochemical industry, it added.-TradeArabia News Service