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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (968)	8/8/2007 6:31:11 AM
From: Dennis Roth	Respond to of 1740

Fluor Gains Eastman Chemical Gasification Plant Feed Work 8/3/2007 chemicalonline.com Houston, TX - Fluor Corporation announced recently that it was selected by Eastman Chemical Company to provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) work for a $1.6B gasification project along the Texas Gulf Coast. The initial FEED scope has a contract value of $12M and was booked during the second quarter 2007. Eastman Chemical will be the developer, operator, co-investor and customer of the project, which primarily will use petroleum coke instead of natural gas to produce industrial chemicals used in a variety of consumer-end products. Fluor has had a continuous 40-year relationship with Eastman Chemical, and the development of coal and petroleum coke to chemicals technologies is a strategic growth area for our company,? said David Seaton, Fluor's group president for Energy & Chemicals. "This is an important project for Eastman Chemical in the United States, and we're pleased they selected Fluor to be on their team." The facility will be located in Beaumont, Texas, and is projected to be online in 2011. It will produce low-cost intermediate chemicals, including methanol, hydrogen and ammonia. SOURCE: Fluor Corporation

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (968)	8/8/2007 6:33:50 AM
From: Dennis Roth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1740

Air Products and Eastman Chemical in coal gasification project 08/06/2007 weldingmag.com Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (www.airproducts.com) has signed a Letter of Intent with Eastman Chemical, Inc. (www.eastman.com) to be a significant participant in a petroleum coke fed gasification project planned by Eastman in the Gulf Coast. In the project, which will be one of the first major solid-fuel gasification facilities on the Gulf Coast, Air Products will market hydrogen produced by the operation through its Gulf Coast hydrogen supply pipeline network, and construct and operate new air-separation units to produce more than 7,000 tons per day of oxygen. Eastman intends to locate the $1.66 billion plant in Beaumont, Texas, where the company will make low-cost intermediate chemicals such as methanol, hydrogen and ammonia. Eastman expects the regulatory permit application process to begin later this year, and construction is expected to be under way by early 2009. Construction employment is expected to peak at 1,300-1,500 workers, with permanent employment expected to be approximately 250. Eastman expects to have an equity position of as much as 50 percent and to announce a co-investor in the near future. . "We are excited to be working with Eastman on this gasification project,” said Alex Masetti, vice president, Tonnage Gases North America for Air Products. “The scope of this project integrates our two companies' core strengths and businesses. The combination of Eastman's gasification and chemical industry experience and Air Products' industrial gas and large project experience help to make the project attractive and viable. The gasification project and our involvement represent a unique opportunity for Air Products to provide our world-class ASU technology, key to the operation of the gasifier, and to supply our West Gulf Coast pipeline system with hydrogen generated from petroleum coke fuel. This source of hydrogen diversifies our feed for our pipeline network and, in combination with our multi-plant system, will continue to provide refiners with a very highly reliable supply of hydrogen to make environmentally beneficial cleaner burning transportation fuels." . "We have a long association with Air Products and look forward to continuing our successful relationship in this exciting new project," said David Gallaspy, director of Project Development for Eastman's gasification services. . Air Products' Gulf Coast pipeline network extends from the Houston Ship Channel in Texas to Lake Charles, La. The company's Mississippi River corridor pipeline reaches from Baton Rouge to Norco, La., and east of New Orleans. These pipeline networks provide very highly-reliable hydrogen supply to approximately 50 refinery and process industry customers.