KBR-Socar获得阿塞拜疆项目合同

The joint venture between engineering firm KBR and Azeri state oil company Socar has won a programme management consultancy contract for Socar’s Azerikimya Production Union, which holds a number of chemicals and refined products plants.The value of the contract is undisclosed. It will be booked into the backlog of unfilled orders for KBR’s Engineering & Construction business segment in the fourth quarter of this year.  The contract represents the second award granted to the JV since it was established last year.”The modernisation project will make it possible to increase the production facilities at Azerikimya, ensure the supply of raw materials to polyethylene and polypropylene production installations and to meet the demand in the country,” Socar president Rovnag Abdullayev said in a statement.“It will also increase the country’s export potential, enhance the security of the technological process and the quality of raw materials and finished products.”