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Biodiesel plant for Malaysia
MARKET PROSPECTS gallon-per-day influent lift stations at each of the two plants.
HYDROCARBON PROCESSING
Refinery expansion in Spain
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luor will manage a significant portion of Repsol YPF’s refinery expansion project in Cartagena, Spain. In addition, Fluor will be providing design and engineering services, management of procurement and construction for the refinery’s utilities and offsites. Repsol’s estimated total installed cost for the project is expected to be about US$4.8 billion. Fluor’s scope of work on the project is worth approximately US$1.3 billion. When complete, the expansion will double the refinery’s current production capacity.
DCC unit for Indian refinery
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he Shaw Group’s Energy & Chemicals Group has been selected by Guru Gobind Singh Refineries Limited (GGSRL) to provide technology, engineering and procurement services for a Deep Catalytic Cracking (DCC) unit at the grassroots Punjab Refinery Project in Punjab, India. DCC technology is used for the production of light olefins, particularly propylene and isobutylene, from a variety of hydrocarbon feedstock inputs.
Investment for Greek refinery
Contract awarded for refinery
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luor has been awarded a contract for engineering, procurement and construction for Total’s Port Arthur refinery in Texas, USA. Fluor’s scope of work includes building a coker, a desulfurization unit, a vacuum distillation unit and other related infrastructure. The full contract value of US$1.9 billion will be booked in the first quarter of 2008. The new contract follows the completion of the front-end engineering and design (FEED) work that Fluor has performed for Total at the Port Arthur refinery. When commissioned in 2011, the refinery will convert heavy and process sour crude. The new units will increase the facility’s deep-conversion capacity and expand its ability to process an additional 3 million tons-per-year of ultralow sulfur automotive diesel. This will raise the refinery’s total output of all products to about 12 million tons-per-year.
Biodiesel plant for Malaysia
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echnip has been awarded a contract by KNM Process Systems Sdn Bhd to provide assistance in the detailed engineering of the fatty acids methyl ester transesterification unit for a biodiesel production plant to be located at the port of Kuantan, Malaysia. This project will be executed by Mission Biofuel Sdn Bhd (investor), KNM (contractor) and Axens (licensor). The unit will produce 250 000 tons of biodiesel per year from palm oil. It is scheduled to go into production in the third quarter of 2008.
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echnip has won the contract for the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) of a crude oil distillation unit at the Corinth refinery in Greece by Motor Oil (Hellas) Corinth Refineries SA. This unit will have a production capacity of 60 000 barrels per day. It is scheduled to be operational at the beginning of 2010. The investment for the new unit will be approximately 180 million. 4
Pump Industry Analyst
Clean fuels plants for Bulgaria
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hde has won two major contracts from the Bulgarian company LUKOIL Neftochim Bourgas AD, part of the Russian petroleum group LUKOIL, to engineer and supply clean fuels plants for diesel and
gasoline desulphurisation for its refinery located in Burgas on the Black Sea. The refining plants for the production of low-sulphur fuels have respective annual capacities of 1.6 million tonnes of diesel and 1.1 million tonnes of gasoline, and are scheduled to come on-stream in 2009. Together, the two contracts are worth 100 million in total. Uhde’s scope of supplies and services comprises the detail engineering, supply of equipment, construction support, commissioning supervision and training of the operating personnel.
FOOD & BEVERAGE
New brewery planned for South Africa
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eineken and Diageo have announced a second joint venture in South Africa in order to construct and operate a brewery in Gauteng province, South Africa. 75% will be owned by Heineken with Diageo holding a 25% stake. The brewery will have an initial capacity of 3 million hectolitres, with the built-in flexibility to expand.
PETROCHEMICALS
Investment for Grangemouth
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NEOS Polyolefins will invest in random co-polymer technology on its liquid pool polypropelene (PP) unit at Grangemouth, Scotland. By linking ethylene supply from its crackers to the PP unit, random co-polymer grades with a wide range of melt flow rates will be produced commencing Q3 2008 for the blow moulding, packaging and medical sectors. As part of its development of the polyolefin platform at Grangemouth, INEOS Polyolefins also intends to introduce swing capability on its 310 ktpa LLDPE plant to produce HDPE grades. This follows the recent development by INEOS Polyolefins of rotomoulding grades at Grangemouth and the appointment of ICO Polymers as its exclusive partner to distribute its range of advanced hexene co-monomer rotomoulding polymers. The new HDPE injection moulding grades will be produced in addition to the exisiting LLDPE/MDPE grades and will complement the existing HDPE product range.
April 2008
HYDROCARBON PROCESSING
Refinery expansion in Spain
F
luor will manage a significant portion of Repsol YPF’s refinery expansion project in Cartagena, Spain. In addition, Fluor will be providing design and engineering services, management of procurement and construction for the refinery’s utilities and offsites. Repsol’s estimated total installed cost for the project is expected to be about US$4.8 billion. Fluor’s scope of work on the project is worth approximately US$1.3 billion. When complete, the expansion will double the refinery’s current production capacity.
DCC unit for Indian refinery
T
he Shaw Group’s Energy & Chemicals Group has been selected by Guru Gobind Singh Refineries Limited (GGSRL) to provide technology, engineering and procurement services for a Deep Catalytic Cracking (DCC) unit at the grassroots Punjab Refinery Project in Punjab, India. DCC technology is used for the production of light olefins, particularly propylene and isobutylene, from a variety of hydrocarbon feedstock inputs.
Investment for Greek refinery
Contract awarded for refinery
F
luor has been awarded a contract for engineering, procurement and construction for Total’s Port Arthur refinery in Texas, USA. Fluor’s scope of work includes building a coker, a desulfurization unit, a vacuum distillation unit and other related infrastructure. The full contract value of US$1.9 billion will be booked in the first quarter of 2008. The new contract follows the completion of the front-end engineering and design (FEED) work that Fluor has performed for Total at the Port Arthur refinery. When commissioned in 2011, the refinery will convert heavy and process sour crude. The new units will increase the facility’s deep-conversion capacity and expand its ability to process an additional 3 million tons-per-year of ultralow sulfur automotive diesel. This will raise the refinery’s total output of all products to about 12 million tons-per-year.
Biodiesel plant for Malaysia
T
echnip has been awarded a contract by KNM Process Systems Sdn Bhd to provide assistance in the detailed engineering of the fatty acids methyl ester transesterification unit for a biodiesel production plant to be located at the port of Kuantan, Malaysia. This project will be executed by Mission Biofuel Sdn Bhd (investor), KNM (contractor) and Axens (licensor). The unit will produce 250 000 tons of biodiesel per year from palm oil. It is scheduled to go into production in the third quarter of 2008.
T
echnip has won the contract for the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) of a crude oil distillation unit at the Corinth refinery in Greece by Motor Oil (Hellas) Corinth Refineries SA. This unit will have a production capacity of 60 000 barrels per day. It is scheduled to be operational at the beginning of 2010. The investment for the new unit will be approximately 180 million. 4
Pump Industry Analyst
Clean fuels plants for Bulgaria
U
hde has won two major contracts from the Bulgarian company LUKOIL Neftochim Bourgas AD, part of the Russian petroleum group LUKOIL, to engineer and supply clean fuels plants for diesel and
gasoline desulphurisation for its refinery located in Burgas on the Black Sea. The refining plants for the production of low-sulphur fuels have respective annual capacities of 1.6 million tonnes of diesel and 1.1 million tonnes of gasoline, and are scheduled to come on-stream in 2009. Together, the two contracts are worth 100 million in total. Uhde’s scope of supplies and services comprises the detail engineering, supply of equipment, construction support, commissioning supervision and training of the operating personnel.
FOOD & BEVERAGE
New brewery planned for South Africa
H
eineken and Diageo have announced a second joint venture in South Africa in order to construct and operate a brewery in Gauteng province, South Africa. 75% will be owned by Heineken with Diageo holding a 25% stake. The brewery will have an initial capacity of 3 million hectolitres, with the built-in flexibility to expand.
PETROCHEMICALS
Investment for Grangemouth
I
NEOS Polyolefins will invest in random co-polymer technology on its liquid pool polypropelene (PP) unit at Grangemouth, Scotland. By linking ethylene supply from its crackers to the PP unit, random co-polymer grades with a wide range of melt flow rates will be produced commencing Q3 2008 for the blow moulding, packaging and medical sectors. As part of its development of the polyolefin platform at Grangemouth, INEOS Polyolefins also intends to introduce swing capability on its 310 ktpa LLDPE plant to produce HDPE grades. This follows the recent development by INEOS Polyolefins of rotomoulding grades at Grangemouth and the appointment of ICO Polymers as its exclusive partner to distribute its range of advanced hexene co-monomer rotomoulding polymers. The new HDPE injection moulding grades will be produced in addition to the exisiting LLDPE/MDPE grades and will complement the existing HDPE product range.
April 2008