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WORLD NEWS

IN BRIEF

March

2017

HYDROCARBON

ENGINEERING

8

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.