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Exhibit 10.12
Engineering Service Contract (II)
(Professional Engineering Service
Contract for Construction Project)
Name of the
project: Xinyang Jinding Project with an annual production of
300,000t/a
bio-diesel oil
and 15,000t/a 1, 3 propylene glycol
Location of the
project: Xinyang, Henan province
Contract No.:
[2005] Xianghuashehe No. 21
(Filled in by
the Designer)
Level of the
design certificate: first-degree in the whole petrochemical
industry
Contract
letting party: Xinyang Hongchang Channel Gas Engineering Co.,
Ltd
Designer: Hunan
Biologically Pharmaceutical Factory
Consigned
technician: Qinghua University
Date of
Contract: October 30, 2005
Ministry of Construction of
People’s Republic of China
State Administration for Industry
and Commerce
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Contract
letting party: (Party A) Henan Xinyang Hongchang Pipeline
& Gas Company
Designer: (Party B) Hunan Chemical
& Pharmaceutical Design Institute
The Contract
letting party entrust the Designer to undertake the engineering
design of Xinyang Jinding300,000t/a bio-diesel oil and15,000t/a 1,3
propylene glycol project and 10,000 t/a bio-diesel oil project and
the location for the project is Xinyang, Henan province. After
friendly consultation, The parties hereby sign this contract as
follows:
Article
1 Basis for the
conclusion of this contract
1.1 The
Contract Law of the People’s Republic of China; The
Construction Law of the People’s Republic of China;
Regulations on the Administration of the Market for Survey and
Design of Engineering Construction
1.2 National
and local rules and regulations on the administration of the market
for survey and design of engineering construction
1.3 Approval
documents of the engineering construction
2.1 The proxy
statements or the design bid-winning documents sending by the
contract letting party to the designer.
2.2 The base
information giving by the contract letting party
2.3 The main
technical criterions adopted by the designer are:
1. Fire
Prevention Norm for Construction designGBJ16-1987 (The 2001
version)
2. The
Provisions about the Content and Depth of the Shop Drawing of the
Chemical Techniques Design
3. The Design
Mode of the Industrial Metal Pipeline GB50316-2000
4. The related
national executing technical criterions and norms.
Article
3 The order of
Precedence of the contract documents
The documents
constituting the present contract can illuminate each other. If
there is diverge or disaccord, please judge them according to the
following order of precedence:
3.2 The
bid-winning documents
3.3 The
contract letting party‘s requirements and the bid-winning
documents
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Article
4 The Project,
scale, stage, investment and design contents of the present
contract (filling in accordance with the characters of the
industry):
Article
5 The related
information, documents and time submitted by the contract letting
party to the designer.
The contract
letting party entrusts the Tsinghua University with the provision
of the technical information about the technics of the bio-diesel
productions of the present project;
5.1 The indispensable
information in the feasibility study report stage (it shall be
provided in seven days since the contract is assigned)
5.1.1 The flow chart,
technology parameters, and equipment schedule provided by the
technology transfer party;
5.1.2 The specification of the
raw materials and the norm quota of consumption
5.1.3 The hydrological and
weather information, geological information and relief
map;
5.1.4 Other supporting
documental information in the feasibility study stage
5.2 The information in the
project designing stage (it shall be provided in ten days since the
beginning of the project design)
5.2.1 Entrust the technology
party with the provision of the Software bundle of the bio-diesel
technics
5.2.2 The specification of the
raw materials
5.2.3 The detailed geological
exploitation and relief map
5.2.4 Other fundamental
design materials.
Article
6 Design documents
and the number of copies delivered by the designer to the contract
letting party, and the place and time to deliver
6.1 Submit
15 copies of feasibility study report within 30 days after
conclusion of the contract.
6.2 Submit
10 copies of preliminary design document 60 days after approval of
the feasibility study report.
6.3 Submit 8
copies of construction drawings 90 days after approval of the
preliminary design document.
6.4 Documents
are delivered at: Changsha City, Hunan Province
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7.1 The two
parties agree that the feasibility study and design fee under this
Contract is RMB ***** in total , including RMB
***** consultancy fee for compiling the feasibility study
report and RMB ***** design fee for the project. The
charging basis and calculation approach is executed in accordance
with related national and local regulations; where there’s no
national and local regulation, they shall be agreed on by the two
parties.
7.2 After
approval of the preliminary design, the design fee shall remain
unchanged. In the event of budget adjustment in construction of the
project, the design fee shall not be adjusted either.
8.1 The
contract letting party shall, within ***** after this Contract
takes effect, pay the designer ***** of the total fee for
feasibility consultancy as deposit at the feasibility study stage,
which totals RMB ***** (In settlement, such deposit will be
used to set off the design fee and the consultancy fee for
compilation of the feasibility study report).
8.2 When the
designer submits the feasibility study report , the contract
letting party shall pay RMB ***** consultancy
fee.
8.3 The
contract letting party pays ***** of the design fee to the
designer, totaling RMB ***** , then the designer organize
and conduct design. When the designer submits the preliminary
design documents, the contract letting party shall pay
RMB ***** design fee. Afterwards, the contract letting party
shall, based on the proportion of quantity of construction drawings
completed by the design fee, pay to the designer RMB *****
design fee by phases and by strikes. After completion of
construction drawings, the contract letting party shall settle the
design fee, without withholding any remaining funds.
Article
9 Responsibilities
of both parties
9.1 The
contract letting party’s responsibility
9.1.1 The
contract letting party entrusts the technology party with the
provision of the technology information to the designer. It shall
take the responsibility of the advancement, dependability and
veracity of the technology information and the disputes of the
knowledge property right causing by it.
9.1.2 According
to the Article 5, the contract letting party shall provide
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