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reduce fuel consumption but also decrease overall emissions, including CO2. The plant should generate 10% less CO2 on a per KWh basis than the typical coal plant in the region.
CHEMICALS EXXONMOBIL INCREASES HALOBUTYL CAPACITY ExxonMobil Chemical has outlined a major expansion of halobutyl manufacturing at its plant in Baytown, Texas, USA. The US facility will increase capacity to produce Exxon Bromobutyl rubber by 60% by modifying existing equipment and adding new equipment. The expansion is part of the company’s commitment to satisfy strong demand and high growth in the global halobutyl rubber market and tire industry. Construction is expected to be completed during the second quarter of 2008.
DOW EXPANDS IN ASIA PACIFIC The Dow Chemical Co is planning a joint venture liquids cracker in Thailand with The Siam Cement Public Co Ltd (SCC). Dow describes the project as asset light in a key emerging geography that will provide propylene and other building blocks to help drive the growth of the company’s Performance businesses across Asia Pacific. Dow will also develop a number of down-stream facilities in conjunction with the new development, including a hydrogen peroxide to propylene oxide (HPPO) plant and a range of PO derivatives. PO is used to produce propylene glycol, polyurethanes and glycol
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ethers. The new cracker will also allow for the expansion of the existing higher alpha olefins polyethylene joint venture facility, which would produce specialty polyolefin products using Dow’s state-of-the-art process and catalyst technology. The cracker is expected to start operating in 2010.
KPC is adding this third gas processing train (SGT3) to its existing gas facilities in the Salam area to process the gas produced from its new discoveries.
BOREALIS INVESTS 200 MN IN CENTRAL EUROPE
Venture Production plc, the Aberdeen, UK-based independent oil and gas production company, is to build and operate a new 33 km pipeline that will export oil produced from the Greater Kittiwake Area (GKA). At present there are four fields exporting oil via tanker from the Venture-operated Kittiwake platform and the new pipeline will provide a fixed link between this platform and the existing Forties Pipeline System (FPS). Gross production from GKA has risen from around 5000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) in November 2003, when Venture became the field and platform operator, to over 30 000 boepd today. Venture is planning to lay the pipeline from the Kittiwake platform to the BP-owned Forties Unity platform where it will be tied in to the FPS which will then transport the oil to market. The company estimates the total construction cost of the pipeline to be £65 million–£70 million with an expected start-up date in late 2007.
Borealis’s 330 000-tonneper-year (t/y) expansion of its polypropylene (PP) facilities in Burghausen, Germany, based on its proprietary Borstar technology, is progressing according to plan with start up scheduled before the end of 2007. Product silos are in place, and work on steel structures is advancing. In mid-November, two gas phase reactors were shipped from Linz, Austria to Passau, Germany and then transported to Burghausen for installation.
OIL & GAS PETROFAC WINS GAS PLANT CONTRACT IN EGYPT Petrofac has secured a US$200 million lump sum engineering, procurement and construction contract by Khalda Petroleum Co (KPC) to build a new gas processing facility at Salam area in Egypt. KPC is a joint venture company between Apache Corp and Egyptian General Petroleum Corp. The project, scheduled for completion before the end of 2008, covers project management, detailed design, procurement, construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up, performance testing and initial operations.
VENTURE PLANS NORTH SEA OIL PIPELINE
FW WINS CEPSA CONTRACT IN SPAIN Foster Wheeler Iberia SA has been awarded a lumpsum contract by Compañía Española de Petróleos SA (CEPSA), one of the main Spanish refining companies, for the front-end engineering design (FEED) and early procurement services for new crude, vacuum and gas
concentration units at La Rábida Refinery at Huelva, in Spain. The design for the new units will be based on a UOP basic design package. The crude distillation unit will have a capacity of 90 000 barrels per stream day (BPSD), the vacuum distillation unit capacity will be 30 500 BPSD and the capacity of the gas concentration unit will be approximately 148 tons per hour.
FLUOR TO WORK ON BP REFINERY UPGRADE Fluor Corp has been awarded program management, construction management, and three major engineering and fabrication packages from BP Products North America Inc for its US$3 billion Canadian Heavy Crude Refinery Upgrade in Whiting, Indiana. The Fluor work includes the overall integrated program management and construction management; plus the independent engineering, procurement and fabrication of three major work packages, including a revamped crude distillation unit, a gas oil hydrotreater and the refinery infrastructure facilities to support the additional heavy crude oil processing. Front-end engineering design is currently under way at Fluor’s Sugar Land, Texas, office. Construction on the project is tentatively scheduled to begin in 2007, with completion by 2011.
SNC-LAVALIN TO STUDY HEAVY OIL UPGRADER Venezuela’s state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) has selected SNC-Lavalin to carry out a scoping study for an extra heavy oil processing
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CHEMICALS EXXONMOBIL INCREASES HALOBUTYL CAPACITY ExxonMobil Chemical has outlined a major expansion of halobutyl manufacturing at its plant in Baytown, Texas, USA. The US facility will increase capacity to produce Exxon Bromobutyl rubber by 60% by modifying existing equipment and adding new equipment. The expansion is part of the company’s commitment to satisfy strong demand and high growth in the global halobutyl rubber market and tire industry. Construction is expected to be completed during the second quarter of 2008.
DOW EXPANDS IN ASIA PACIFIC The Dow Chemical Co is planning a joint venture liquids cracker in Thailand with The Siam Cement Public Co Ltd (SCC). Dow describes the project as asset light in a key emerging geography that will provide propylene and other building blocks to help drive the growth of the company’s Performance businesses across Asia Pacific. Dow will also develop a number of down-stream facilities in conjunction with the new development, including a hydrogen peroxide to propylene oxide (HPPO) plant and a range of PO derivatives. PO is used to produce propylene glycol, polyurethanes and glycol
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ethers. The new cracker will also allow for the expansion of the existing higher alpha olefins polyethylene joint venture facility, which would produce specialty polyolefin products using Dow’s state-of-the-art process and catalyst technology. The cracker is expected to start operating in 2010.
KPC is adding this third gas processing train (SGT3) to its existing gas facilities in the Salam area to process the gas produced from its new discoveries.
BOREALIS INVESTS 200 MN IN CENTRAL EUROPE
Venture Production plc, the Aberdeen, UK-based independent oil and gas production company, is to build and operate a new 33 km pipeline that will export oil produced from the Greater Kittiwake Area (GKA). At present there are four fields exporting oil via tanker from the Venture-operated Kittiwake platform and the new pipeline will provide a fixed link between this platform and the existing Forties Pipeline System (FPS). Gross production from GKA has risen from around 5000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) in November 2003, when Venture became the field and platform operator, to over 30 000 boepd today. Venture is planning to lay the pipeline from the Kittiwake platform to the BP-owned Forties Unity platform where it will be tied in to the FPS which will then transport the oil to market. The company estimates the total construction cost of the pipeline to be £65 million–£70 million with an expected start-up date in late 2007.
Borealis’s 330 000-tonneper-year (t/y) expansion of its polypropylene (PP) facilities in Burghausen, Germany, based on its proprietary Borstar technology, is progressing according to plan with start up scheduled before the end of 2007. Product silos are in place, and work on steel structures is advancing. In mid-November, two gas phase reactors were shipped from Linz, Austria to Passau, Germany and then transported to Burghausen for installation.
OIL & GAS PETROFAC WINS GAS PLANT CONTRACT IN EGYPT Petrofac has secured a US$200 million lump sum engineering, procurement and construction contract by Khalda Petroleum Co (KPC) to build a new gas processing facility at Salam area in Egypt. KPC is a joint venture company between Apache Corp and Egyptian General Petroleum Corp. The project, scheduled for completion before the end of 2008, covers project management, detailed design, procurement, construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up, performance testing and initial operations.
VENTURE PLANS NORTH SEA OIL PIPELINE
FW WINS CEPSA CONTRACT IN SPAIN Foster Wheeler Iberia SA has been awarded a lumpsum contract by Compañía Española de Petróleos SA (CEPSA), one of the main Spanish refining companies, for the front-end engineering design (FEED) and early procurement services for new crude, vacuum and gas
concentration units at La Rábida Refinery at Huelva, in Spain. The design for the new units will be based on a UOP basic design package. The crude distillation unit will have a capacity of 90 000 barrels per stream day (BPSD), the vacuum distillation unit capacity will be 30 500 BPSD and the capacity of the gas concentration unit will be approximately 148 tons per hour.
FLUOR TO WORK ON BP REFINERY UPGRADE Fluor Corp has been awarded program management, construction management, and three major engineering and fabrication packages from BP Products North America Inc for its US$3 billion Canadian Heavy Crude Refinery Upgrade in Whiting, Indiana. The Fluor work includes the overall integrated program management and construction management; plus the independent engineering, procurement and fabrication of three major work packages, including a revamped crude distillation unit, a gas oil hydrotreater and the refinery infrastructure facilities to support the additional heavy crude oil processing. Front-end engineering design is currently under way at Fluor’s Sugar Land, Texas, office. Construction on the project is tentatively scheduled to begin in 2007, with completion by 2011.
SNC-LAVALIN TO STUDY HEAVY OIL UPGRADER Venezuela’s state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) has selected SNC-Lavalin to carry out a scoping study for an extra heavy oil processing
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