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WORLD NEWS
IN BRIEF
March
2017
HYDROCARBON
ENGINEERING
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Singapore |
ExxonMobil refinery to expand
Group II base stock production
E
xxonMobil has announced the
expansion of its Singapore
refinery to support the production of
the company’s EHC
TM
Group II base
stocks, which will strengthen the
global supply of these products and
enhance the Singapore facility’s
competitiveness. Construction is
expected to begin during 2Q17 with
completion anticipated in 2019.
ExxonMobil’s EHC product line
has been designed to maximise the
performance of all major
automotive engine oil grades and to
enhance the performance of
finished lubricants used in multiple
industries.
The expansion project represents
the latest in a series of recent
ExxonMobil investments in base
stock production, including a
previous expansion of capacity at the
Singapore refinery in 2014, a recently
commissioned project at the
company’s major integrated facility in
Baytown, Texas, US, and introduction
of Group II base stocks into European
markets ahead of the anticipated
completion of the new Rotterdam
hydrocracker unit in 2018.
PEC Ltd has received a seven-year single
daily maintenance contract from Nghi Son
Refinery and Petrochemical Ltd Liability
Company (NSRP), in Vietnam. Under the
contract, PEC will provide long-term
daily maintenance services for the NSRP
Complex. This project is the largest
integrated refinery and petrochemical
project in Vietnam with a refining
capacity of 10 million tpy.
Meridian Energy Group Inc. has
announced that it recently entered into
Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs)
with local and regional petroleum
product distribution firms. Under the
MoUs, these firms will purchase and
distribute up to 268 million gal./y of
refined products from the Davis Refinery,
Meridian’s greenfield refinery proposed
for Billings County, near Belfield,
North Dakota.
Clariant has announced that it has been
awarded a contract by Dongguan Grand
Resource Science & Technology Co. Ltd to
develop a new propane dehydrogenation
unit in cooperation with CB&I. The project
includes the license and engineering
design of the unit, which is to be built
in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province,
China.
GTC Technology has supplied its
proprietary GT-DWCSM technology for
a second dividing wall column (DWC)
for Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) at the
DTA Refinery in Jamnagar, India. The
project was unique in that a separation
process, previously made by two naphtha
splitting towers, was altered to be made
in only one of the towers, which was
converted to a GT-DWC configuration.
Canada |
Fluor to support Woodfibre LNG
F
luor Corp. has announced that it
has signed an agreement with
JGC America Inc. to provide
construction-related support to the
front-end engineering and design
(FEED) services for the Woodfibre
LNG project in the District of
Squamish near Vancouver,
British Columbia (B.C.). Fluor booked
the undisclosed contract value in the
4Q16.
Under the subcontract, Fluor will
provide construction planning and
design services to support the FEED
package and engineering,
procurement and construction
proposal development. JGC is a FEED
contractor for the proposed
2.1 million tpy natural gas Woodfibre
liquefaction plant and export facility.
The proposed facility will be
powered with electricity from
BC Hydro, which generates more
than 90% clean renewable energy
and will help create one of the
cleanest LNG facilities in the world.
China |
Flowserve wins pump order
F
lowserve Corp. has announced an
order close to US$80 million to
provide pumps and ebulators for the
Hengli Integrated Refining Complex
Project, a 400 000 bpd final
conversion refinery on Changxing
Island in Dalian, Liaoning Province in
China.
The order includes nearly
200 pumps, which will be used in an
integrated refining and petrochemical
project for the Hengli Petrochemical
Complex. Flowserve will work in
coordination with SINOPEC Luoyang
Petrochemical Engineering Corp.
(LPEC).
The Flowserve products will be
sourced primarily from its facilities in
Vernon, USA; Desio, Italy; and
Suzhou, China, with phased deliveries
beginning in early 2018 to support
the project as it moves forward.