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Several of Dow's existing chlor-alkali assets in Freeport are nearing the end of their economic life and would require significant investments to continue operation. The company will begin the process to shutdown those facilities over the next three years.
T he Linde Group has signed a contract with BASF to construct a large hydrogen plant for their facility in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Linde will be handling the basic and detail engineering and materials procurement for this project as well as installation and commissioning. The turn-key hydrogen plant is scheduled to go into operation in mid-September 2009.
Linde already has built oxygen and ethylene production plants at the Ludwigshafen facility, but this is the first hydrogen plant that Linde will have supplied to BASF. When the new plant goes into operation, it will increase the facility's total hydrogen capacity by 50 000 standard cubic metres. The highly purified hydrogen will be fed into the BASF internal pipeline network.
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In addition, Fluor will be providing design and engineering services, management of procurement and construction for the refinery's utilities and offsites. Repsol's estimated total installed cost for the project is expected to be about US$4.8 billion. Fluor's scope of work on the project is worth ap