Fluor Corporation announced that its engineering, procurement and construction project for INEOS’ new energy plant at the Grangemouth refinery complex on the Firth of Forth in Scotland is underway and has made significant progress.

“Fluor is supporting INEOS’ strategic investment plans with this important project that will improve energy efficiency and resilience at Grangemouth, one of the UK’s largest manufacturing sites,” said Simon Nottingham, president of Fluor’s Energy & Chemicals business in Europe, Africa and Middle East. “Fluor is using its in-depth cogeneration expertise to optimize design and minimize the impact on existing operations while delivering execution excellence through cost and schedule certainty.”

The new energy plant will replace existing facilities that have been providing steam and power to the refinery and petrochemical plants for more than 40 years. The new plant will have the capacity to produce high pressure steam to be used in the industrial processes undertaken at the Grangemouth complex. The plant will also generate electricity to support the site’s self-sufficiency and export.

Fluor’s scope of work includes design, procurement, construction and commissioning support for three boilers to create superheated high pressure steam. A pipe bridge will be built to provide a connection to the wider site.

Fluor’s Farnborough office is leading the project supported by the company’s global experts and is working in an integrated team with INEOS engineers. Fluor previously undertook the front-end engineering design for the new energy plant.

Fluor’s UK office serves a wide range of industries including energy, chemicals, government, life sciences, advanced manufacturing, infrastructure, mining and power market sectors.

About Fluor Corporation

Founded in 1912, Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) is a global engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction and maintenance company that transforms the world by building prosperity and empowering progress. Fluor serves its clients by designing, building and maintaining safe, well executed, capital-efficient projects around the world. With headquarters in Irving, Texas, Fluor ranks 153 on the Fortune 500 list with revenue of $19.2 billion in 2018 and has more than 53,000 employees worldwide.

About INEOS

INEOS www.ineos.com is one of the largest chemicals companies and the 200th largest businesses in the world. It employs around 19,300 people across 181 sites in 22 countries with sales in 2017 of $60bn and EBITDA close to $7bn. The company has grown rapidly in the petrochemicals sector over the past 20 years, with more recent focus broadening its activity into the Upstream E&P sector.

INEOS is currently a Top 10 company and the biggest private enterprise operating in the North Sea. Its oil and gas activities comprise six different businesses including INEOS Shale, focused on onshore gas development; INEOS Oil & Gas UK operating in the UK southern North Sea as well as non-operated assets West of Shetland; INEOS FPS, which runs the Forties Pipeline System, recently acquired from BP; INEOS Upstream Services; INEOS Oil & Gas Denmark and INEOS Oil & Gas Norway running assets recently acquired from DONG Energy . It has about 1000 employees and capabilities to take on further projects and growth.