KBR Awarded EPC Contract for Molycorp Chlor-Alkali Project

KBR KBR today announced that it has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract by a wholly owned subsidiary of Molycorp MCP to build a new Chlor-Alkali plant as part of Molycorp's Project Phoenix. The Chlor-Alkali plant construction is one of various projects that make up Molycorp's estimated $781 million program to reactivate the company's rare earth oxides (REO) mine, and expand and modernize its flagship rare earth facility in Mountain Pass, Calif. Molycorp is the Western hemisphere's only producer of REO.