Amec Foster Wheeler has announced that it has been awarded a USD $604 million engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) fixed price contract for part of a USD $1.85 billion methanol plant being developed by Yuhuang Chemical Inc (YCI), a US-based subsidiary of China’s Shandong Yuhuang Chemical Company Co. Ltd.
The first phase of the project will include the construction of a 1.8 million tpy methanol plant, being built at YCI’s site in St. James Parish, Louisiana. Amec Foster Wheeler had previously carried out engineering, project management, procurement and early construction services for the project in 2015.
Amec Foster Wheeler will carry out specific infrastructure and utilities engineering work, the procurement of bulk items and selected tagged equipment and the construction of the methanol plant.