Aker Kvaerner and Praj Industries have been chosed to do the early engineering and design on the a bio-ethanol plant BP and partners announced it would build at Saltland near Hull.

The plant will bring together world “biofuels experts”, Aker Kvaerner-Praj Biofuels managing director, Ronald van der Vlist, said in a statement.

Using Praj bioethanol technology, the grass-roots plant will use locally grown wheat as feedstock to produce fuel ethanol.

Aker Kvaerner and Praj completed a feasibility project in December 2006, and so appeared to have been “shoe-ins” for the front-end engineering and design, or FEED work.