Technip Energies awarded contract for upgrading of Vietnamese cracker

Technip Energies says it has secured a contract from Long Son Petrochemicals (LSP) to enhance the Long Son Petrochemicals facility on Long Son Island, Vietnam.

Under the contract, Technip Energies will provide engineering and procurement services, site assistance and proprietary burners for the cracking furnaces at the petrochemical complex.

The enhancement project will involve converting the current steam cracker from naphtha to ethane feedstock utilising Technip Energies’ proprietary ethylene technologies. These include the Ultra Selective Conversion furnace design and the Heat-Integrated Rectifier System.

This will allow the integration of high volumes of ethane into the plant’s existing naphtha and propane feedstock streams.

By doing so, LSP intends to increase feedstock efficiency and reduce costs, while seeking to reduce carbon emissions and improve the facility’s resilience in changing market conditions.

The conversion represents one of the first recent transitions from a naphtha-based steam cracker to ethane globally, reflecting broader trends among petrochemical producers towards diversification and reduced-carbon feedstocks.

The current project extends the existing relationship between Technip Energies and LSP, with Technip handling the engineering, procurement and construction of the site’s cracker unit from 2018 to 2023.