Pennsylvania Chemicals

Customer Name: Bechtel

Project Location: Ohio River Valley, PA

Project Summary

Pennsylvania Chemicals is a world-scale facility that will use ethane to produce 1.6 million tonnes of polyethylene per year. The project will involve up to 6,000 workers during its construction and is expected to employ 600 permanent employees when completed.

The ethylene / polyethylene complex will be located in the Ohio River Valley north of Pittsburgh. It comprises an ethane cracker and three polyethylene units, plus OSBL including a gas-fired combined cycle cogeneration unit and a large storage-in-transit rail yard.

Scope of Work

GSS was contracted by Bechtel to provide front end Scaffolding Design, Estimating, Installation Work Packaging and Asset Management Services for the Pennsylvania Chemicals project.