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ExxonMobil to proceed with steam-cracking complex in Singapore
MARKET PROSPECTS The Hanoi Vung Tau Joint Stock Co brewery will be located in Vung Tau province, approximately 50 km outside Ho Chi Minh City. Vung Tau is one of the fastest growing provinces in Vietnam due to among others the presence of large off-shore oil fields. The brewery will have an initial capacity of 500 000 hl. Carlsberg already holds a strong position in the Northern and Central Vietnam through its investments in three joint venture breweries and the new joint venture in South will therefore form an important stepping stone into the fast growing South Vietnamese beer market.
HYDROCARBON PROCESSING
ExxonMobil to proceed with steam-cracking complex in Singapore
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xxonMobil Chemical Co has completed its detailed study of a second world-scale steam cracker complex in Singapore and made the final decision to proceed with construction. The project will be located at and integrated with its existing Singapore site, providing feedstock, operating and investment synergies with both the chemical plant and refinery. The new petrochemical project will include a world-scale, one million tons-peryear ethylene steam cracker, two 650 000 tons-per-year polyethylene units, a 450 000 tons-per-year polypropylene unit, a 300 000 tons-per-year specialty elastomers unit, an aromatics extraction unit to produce 340 000 tons-per-year of benzene and an oxoalcohol expansion of 125 000 tons-per-year. A 220 MW power cogeneration unit will also be built. Project start-up is expected in early 2011. ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte Ltd has awarded the design, engineering, procurement and construction (DEPC) contract for the steam cracker recovery unit to The Shaw Group. The EPC contract for the steam cracker furnaces has been awarded to Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding and Heurtey. Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding has also been awarded EPC contracts for the polypropylene and specialty elastomers units. The EPC contract for the two polyethylene units has been awarded to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. 4
Pump Industry Analyst
Fluor selected for Russian refinery project
Jacobs to engineer consolidated tank terminal in Hamburg
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luor Corp has signed a Heads of Agreement to provide project management consulting services for a refinery complex in Tatarstan, Russia, for Tatneft, one of the largest companies in Russia’s oil and gas sector. Fluor will also provide engineering, procurement and construction management services for selected scopes of work focused on the utilities, off-sites and infrastructure (UOI) for the complex. The definitive contract, which will establish the value of Fluor’s scope and key project milestones, is scheduled to be finalized in late 2007 or early 2008. When complete, the new complex is expected to have the capacity to refine up to 7 million metric tons of crude oil per year. Future phases of the facility will include a deep conversion refining plant with an annual throughput of 3.5 million tons and a petrochemical plant for the production of products derived from aromatic hydrocarbons, and are not part of Fluor’s scope at this time.
Shell to expand Motiva Port Arthur refinery
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hell Oil Co has decided to begin construction on a 325 000 barrel-per-day (b/d) capacity expansion project at its joint venture Motiva’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. The expansion project will increase the refinery’s crude oil throughput capacity to 600 000 b/d, making it the largest refinery in the US and one of the largest in the world. The 325 000 b/d expansion at Port Arthur is equivalent to building the first new refinery in the US in more than 30 years. The new production capacity will increase Motiva’s supply of Shell-branded fuels to the company’s wholesale and direct supply markets. Motiva’s expansion will lower most types of emissions from refinery operations on a per barrel basis by utilizing advanced technology in all new system installations and replacing existing systems.
acobs Engineering Group Inc has received a contract from Vopak Dupeg Terminal Hamburg GmbH to provide engineering, procurement, and construction management services for the relocation of tank terminal facilities in Hamburg, Germany. Vopak will integrate the two current Hamburg terminals into one. To make room for the increasing container activity in the Port of Hamburg, one terminal will be closed and the activities will be relocated to the other terminal. The integrated terminal will serve all major refinery and chemical owners in the northern region of the country.
INEOS to discontinue Wilhelmshaven cracker project
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NEOS has reluctantly decided that it will suspend all further work on the planned investment in a new ethane cracker at the Wilhelmshaven site, Germany, following recent discussions between Statoil, E.ON Ruhrgas and INEOS on this investment project. Increasing capital costs of well over 30% in the last twelve months alone have made the project, in its current form, economically unviable.
POWER GENERATION
Hatch to develop greenfield hydro project
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atch has been retained by Horizon Hydro to help develop their Trout Lake River Hydro project, a greenfield hydro site for 3.2 MW of renewable energy, near Ear Falls, in northwestern Ontario, Canada. Hatch will also provide procurement, design, and construction management for the facility.
October 2007
HYDROCARBON PROCESSING
ExxonMobil to proceed with steam-cracking complex in Singapore
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xxonMobil Chemical Co has completed its detailed study of a second world-scale steam cracker complex in Singapore and made the final decision to proceed with construction. The project will be located at and integrated with its existing Singapore site, providing feedstock, operating and investment synergies with both the chemical plant and refinery. The new petrochemical project will include a world-scale, one million tons-peryear ethylene steam cracker, two 650 000 tons-per-year polyethylene units, a 450 000 tons-per-year polypropylene unit, a 300 000 tons-per-year specialty elastomers unit, an aromatics extraction unit to produce 340 000 tons-per-year of benzene and an oxoalcohol expansion of 125 000 tons-per-year. A 220 MW power cogeneration unit will also be built. Project start-up is expected in early 2011. ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte Ltd has awarded the design, engineering, procurement and construction (DEPC) contract for the steam cracker recovery unit to The Shaw Group. The EPC contract for the steam cracker furnaces has been awarded to Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding and Heurtey. Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding has also been awarded EPC contracts for the polypropylene and specialty elastomers units. The EPC contract for the two polyethylene units has been awarded to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. 4
Pump Industry Analyst
Fluor selected for Russian refinery project
Jacobs to engineer consolidated tank terminal in Hamburg
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J
luor Corp has signed a Heads of Agreement to provide project management consulting services for a refinery complex in Tatarstan, Russia, for Tatneft, one of the largest companies in Russia’s oil and gas sector. Fluor will also provide engineering, procurement and construction management services for selected scopes of work focused on the utilities, off-sites and infrastructure (UOI) for the complex. The definitive contract, which will establish the value of Fluor’s scope and key project milestones, is scheduled to be finalized in late 2007 or early 2008. When complete, the new complex is expected to have the capacity to refine up to 7 million metric tons of crude oil per year. Future phases of the facility will include a deep conversion refining plant with an annual throughput of 3.5 million tons and a petrochemical plant for the production of products derived from aromatic hydrocarbons, and are not part of Fluor’s scope at this time.
Shell to expand Motiva Port Arthur refinery
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hell Oil Co has decided to begin construction on a 325 000 barrel-per-day (b/d) capacity expansion project at its joint venture Motiva’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. The expansion project will increase the refinery’s crude oil throughput capacity to 600 000 b/d, making it the largest refinery in the US and one of the largest in the world. The 325 000 b/d expansion at Port Arthur is equivalent to building the first new refinery in the US in more than 30 years. The new production capacity will increase Motiva’s supply of Shell-branded fuels to the company’s wholesale and direct supply markets. Motiva’s expansion will lower most types of emissions from refinery operations on a per barrel basis by utilizing advanced technology in all new system installations and replacing existing systems.
acobs Engineering Group Inc has received a contract from Vopak Dupeg Terminal Hamburg GmbH to provide engineering, procurement, and construction management services for the relocation of tank terminal facilities in Hamburg, Germany. Vopak will integrate the two current Hamburg terminals into one. To make room for the increasing container activity in the Port of Hamburg, one terminal will be closed and the activities will be relocated to the other terminal. The integrated terminal will serve all major refinery and chemical owners in the northern region of the country.
INEOS to discontinue Wilhelmshaven cracker project
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NEOS has reluctantly decided that it will suspend all further work on the planned investment in a new ethane cracker at the Wilhelmshaven site, Germany, following recent discussions between Statoil, E.ON Ruhrgas and INEOS on this investment project. Increasing capital costs of well over 30% in the last twelve months alone have made the project, in its current form, economically unviable.
POWER GENERATION
Hatch to develop greenfield hydro project
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atch has been retained by Horizon Hydro to help develop their Trout Lake River Hydro project, a greenfield hydro site for 3.2 MW of renewable energy, near Ear Falls, in northwestern Ontario, Canada. Hatch will also provide procurement, design, and construction management for the facility.
October 2007