Fluor was awarded a basic engineering package for DSM's grassroots synthetic rubber EPT-3 project in Geleen, The Netherlands. With the successful execution of this phase, DSM also contracted Fluor to perform the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) phases.

• Major unit operations for this synthetic rubber process are monomers drying, solution polymerization reactors, catalyst deactivation and extraction, degassing, stripping and crumb formation, crumb dewatering, drying and packaging.

• The new plant was integrated within the existing two plants at Geleen.

• Several existing process and logistics systems required modifications because the new systems would be shared with existing ones.

• The project's scope for the FEED-phase included the preparation of a basic engineering package and the corresponding forced detailed cost estimate and the subsequent EPC-phase estimate including development of EPC-execution strategies, schedules and selection of alliance partners.

• The project was executed by an integrated team of Fluor engineering personnel and DSM operations, maintenance and engineering personnel.

• During the EPC phase, we applied a multi-office execution strategy utilizing our Haarlem office (The Netherlands) as the main operating center and our office in Poland for detailed engineering and design.