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Bilfinger wins Ruwais contracts as unit closes for maintenance
middle east
ABU Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) has awarded contracts to Bilfinger Tebodin for front-end engineering and design (FeeD) work on a new unit at the 830,000 barrel per day (bpd) Ruwais re nery.
e deals will see Bil nger Tebodin Middle east, the German rm’s local subsidiary, provide engineering services for a new wastewater treat- ment plant as well as a basic design and detailed engineering package to enhance existing sulphur dust control systems at two sulphur-handling facilities.
e deals follow the Q1 award of three con- tracts for work at Ruwais. In its press statement, it noted the award by fellow Middle eastern downstream giant saudi Basic Industries Corp. (sABIC) of a $66.8mn contract to provide mechanical, electrical and instrumentation engi- neering services for its Teesside site in the UK.
Meanwhile, ADNOC is carrying out mainte- nance at Ruwais’ West Cracker, but despite tak- ing the unit o ine, the rm does not anticipate any supply disruptions.
A company spokesperson was quoted by Reuters this week as saying: “We don’t anticipate any interruptions to supply for the local or inter- national market.”
In January, a groundbreaking transaction saw Austrian rm OMV and Italy’s eni buy stakes of 15% and 20% respectively in the state company’s ADNOC Re ning unit in a deal worth a total of around Us$5.8 billion.
e subsidiary’s core asset is the re nery at Ruwais, where a new 600,000 bpd facility is at the pre-FeeD stage.
Integration of the existing and new re neries at Ruwais with the nearby 4.5mn tonne per year (tpy) Borouge ole ns complex – a 60:40 joint venture between ADNOC and Borealis – is cen- tral to the UAe company’s domestic downstream plans.
Having set a target of raising petrochemicals capacity to 14.4mn tpy by 2025 at the same time as facing a shortage of gas, the fourth phase of expansion at the Borouge plant will entail the installation of the emirate’s rst mixed-feedstock cracker, processing liquids from the re nery.
Borealis’ central role in the Ruwais plans was cemented when the company agreed with ADNOC in July 2017 to implement the Bor- ouge 4 expansion project, covering a 1.8mn tpy mixed-feedstock cracker and derivatives units producing some 3.3mn tpy of ole ns and aromatics.
Honeywell wins contract for Al-Zour
middle east
Us rm Honeywell UOP has been awarded a deal to provide technology and production sys- tems for Kuwait’s 615,000 barrel per day (bpd) integrated re nery and petrochemical facility at Al-Zour.
e award was made by Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Co. (KIPIC), the Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (KPC) subsidiary set up to carry out the development of the downstream and LNG import facilities in the southern port of Al-Zour.
In a press statement, Honeywell UOP said that its proprietary technology would be imple- mented on the project. It said Al-Zour’s gasoline facility would include a 98,000 bpd residual uid catalytic cracking (RFCC) unit for production of propylene, gasoline and petrochemical aro- matics, and a UOP select ning unit to produce low-sulphur gasoline blending components.
In addition, two UOP Merox units will be used to treat propane for propylene produc- tion, and isobutane to make clean fuels blending
components, while an 11,800 bpd Butamer unit will convert normal butane to isobutane.
Al-Zour is slated for commissioning in 2020, while ePC contracts on the connected Ole ns III and Aromatic II project are expected to be ten- dered later this year, coinciding with the antici- pated completion of front-end engineering and design (FeeD) work by the UK’s Wood Group.
Downstream-focused Kuwait National Petroleum Co. (KNPC) has plans in place to more than double its re ning capacity to 2mn bpd by 2035 under a $25bn plan.
e plan was put in motion several years ago to ramp up output from the combined 936,000 bpd of the Mina al-Ahmadi, Mina Abdullah and shuaiba refineries. The 200,000 bpd shuaiba facility was closed in March 2017.
Al-Zour is the focal point of the rst phase of expansion, which will take capacity to 1.7mn bpd by 2025, with the second phase, which will include a new re nery, raising this gure to 2 million bpd by 2035.
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