HOUSTON, March 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- McDermott
International, Inc. (NYSE: MDR) today announced the successful
commercialization and startup of its single largest
CDAlky® reactor to date at PetroChina's refinery
in Jilin, China. The 350,000
metric ton per annum (9,000 barrels per day) plant is one of four
CDAlky projects awarded to the company by PetroChina and had
an unusually fast schedule from design to operation, with startup
occurring just 17 months after initial design.
Lummus' CDAlky technology provides a safe, clean and
economical route to low sulfur, high octane alkylate blendstock
used to fuel smaller, lighter and high compression transportation
engines. One of the key features of the CDAlky technology is
its scalability. Competing processes would require multiple
reactors to achieve the same capacity, adding complexity and plot
space in comparison with CDAlky.
"Lummus technology's CDAlky is the most advanced
alkylation process for the production of motor fuel alkylate," said
Daniel M. McCarthy, Executive Vice
President of McDermott's Lummus Technology business. "The
CDAlky process provides a higher quality product with lower
capital and operating expenditures, offering the best overall
solution for the clean fuel production of alkylate."
McDermott's Lummus Technology is a leading licensor of
proprietary petrochemicals, refining, gasification and gas
processing technologies, and a supplier of proprietary catalysts
and related engineering. With a heritage spanning more than 100
years, encompassing approximately 3,100 patents and patent
applications, Lummus Technology provides one of the industry's most
diversified technology portfolios to the hydrocarbon processing
sector.
About McDermott
McDermott is a premier, fully integrated provider of technology,
engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. For
more than a century, customers have trusted McDermott to design and
build end-to-end infrastructure and technology solutions to
transport and transform oil and gas into the products the world
needs today. Our proprietary technologies, integrated expertise and
comprehensive solutions deliver certainty, innovation and added
value to energy projects around the world. Customers rely on
McDermott to deliver certainty to the most complex projects, from
concept to commissioning. It is called the "One McDermott Way."
Operating in over 54 countries, McDermott's locally focused and
globally-integrated resources include approximately 32,000
employees, a diversified fleet of specialty marine construction
vessels and fabrication facilities around the world. To learn more,
visit www.mcdermott.com.
Contacts:
Investor Relations
Scott
Lamb
Vice President, Investor Relations
+1 832 513 1068
Scott.Lamb@McDermott.com
Global Media Relations
Gentry Brann
Global Vice President, Communications
+1 281 870
5269
Gentry.Brann@McDermott.com
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