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approximate total installed cost of $12 bil- lion. The complex is located in the province of Manabí, Ecuador, and is a joint venture between PetroEcuador and PDVSA Ecua- dor S. A. The refinery will have a crude
processing capacity of 300,000 bpd. During Phase I of the project, Worley- Parsons will provide an integrated proj- ect management team (IPMT) located in Houston, Texas. The IPMT will provide oversight of the project’s front-end engi- neering and design (FEED) and assist the client in selecting the engineering, procure- ment and construction (EPC) contractors. In Phase II the IPMT will provide oversight of the EPC contractors and will be respon- sible for construction management of early activities at the Manabí site.
The project is scheduled to be com- pleted by December 2015. The estimated reimbursable contract value to WorleyPar- sons for Phase I and Phase II is anticipated to be in excess of $200 million.
Europe
Lummus Technology, a CB&I com-
pany, has been awarded a contract by
CJSC Vostochnaya Neftechimicheskaya
(VNHK), a subsidiary of OJSC Rosneft, for
the license and basic engineering of a naph- tha steam-cracking unit and a butadiene- and benzene-extraction unit for VNHK’s new petrochemical complex in Russia.
The steam-cracking unit, which will reportedly be the world’s largest, is designed to produce more than 1.4 million metric tpy of ethylene and more than 600,000 metric tpy of propylene, using the latest advances in the Lummus SRT-VII heater technology. The butadiene unit is designed to produce 230,000 metric tpy of benzene and approximately 200,000 metric tpy of butadiene. It will use Lummus/BASF
butadiene-extraction technology.
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has a
framework contract from Gassnova SF for
its CO2 Capture Mongstad (CCM) Project
at the Mongstad refinery site in Norway. Jacobs will provide engineering and technical assistance services to support the installation of a large-scale carbon-dioxide (CO2) capture plant for a combined heat
and power (CHP) plant at the refinery. The CHP plant is integrated with the refinery and includes fuel gas/electricity exchange with the Troll gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.
The CCM Project, which is in an early development stage, is funded by the Nor-
wegian State and being undertaken by a
joint venture between Gassnova SF and
Statoil ASA.
Alfa Laval has won an order for com-
pact heat exchangers from a refinery in Russia. The compact heat exchangers will be used in the refinery distillation process where crude oil is preheated in different steps. They will reuse heat from the process for preheating the crude oil, resulting in a very energy-efficient solution.
The order is worth approximately SEK 70 million. Delivery is scheduled for 2012.
Middle East
The State of Qatar’s Minister of Energy
and Industry, Dr. Mohammed bin Saleh Al-Sada, and Shell’s CEO, Peter Voser,
have signed an agreement to develop a world-scale petrochemicals complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. This agree- ment follows the conclusion of a joint fea- sibility study conducted by the partners,
Qatar Petroleum and Shell.
The scope under consideration includes a world-scale steam cracker, with feedstock coming from natural gas projects in Qatar; a mono-ethylene glycol plant of up to 1.5 million tpy using Shell’s proprietary Only MEG Advantaged (OMEGA) technology; 300 kiloton/yr of linear alpha olefins using Shell’s proprietary Shell Higher Olefin Pro- cess (SHOP); and another olefin derivative. The complex will produce cost-competitive petrochemical products to be marketed pri- marily into Asian growth markets. Qatar Petroleum will have an 80% equity interest in the project and Shell will have 20%.
The Saudi Arabian Fertilizer Co.
(SAFCO), a manufacturing affiliate of
Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC),
has awarded SAIPEM a turnkey contract
for the engineering design, supply and con- struction of the SAFCO-5 fertilizer plant. The new plant will reportedly be one of the world’s largest urea plants built at a cost of SR 2 billion with a capacity of 1.1 million tpy of urea. It is expected to start commercial production in the third quarter of 2014. The construction schedule is 26 months beginning from December 2011.
The project will convert 850,000 met- ric ton of CO2 (green-house gas), that is
presently vented to the atmosphere, into urea. This will qualify SAFCO to apply for global Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) certification and enable it to gain credits for these emission cuts.
The Shaw Group Inc. has a contract
with the South Refineries Co., which is
part of the Republic of Iraq’s Ministry of Oil, to provide a feasibility study for the
rehabilitation of its 140,000-bpd refinery in Basra, Iraq. The study will assess the refin- ery’s condition and estimate the engineer- ing, equipment supply and construction services required to improve its operation.
The study is funded by the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)
through a grant to the South Refineries Co. This is the first grant the agency has pro- vided directly to an Iraqi grantee, marking the USTDA’s support of Iraq’s long-term economic development.
In Iraq, Shaw is conducting feasibil- ity studies and front-end engineering and design (FEED) for two grassroots 150,000- bpd refineries near the cities of Maissan and Kirkuk, for the Republic of Iraq’s Ministry of Oil. The FEED work includes all process units, offsite facilities and utilities for both refineries. Through a fluidized catalytic- cracking (FCC) alliance, Shaw, and its part- ner, Axens, are providing a process design
package for a 30,000-bpd residual fluidized catalytic-cracking (RFCC) unit at Midland Refineries Co.’s refinery in Daura.
MAN Diesel & Turbo has signed one
6-year enterprise framework agreement for the supply of new compression equipment for Shell locations worldwide and another
5-year framework agreement for the supply of aftermarket parts and services for exist- ing rotating equipment.
The agreement for new compression units covers a wide range of centrifugal compressors for sweet- and sour-gas ser- vices that will be used in both onshore and offshore applications.
MAN Diesel & Turbo and Shell have enjoyed close business relationships for many decades and have cooperated in major up- and downstream projects around the globe, including the world´s largest gas- to-liquid (GTL) project in Qatar.
Asia-Pacific
The Linde Group is set to build and
operate a new hydrogen plant in the Jilin Chemical Industrial Park (JCIP) in north- east China. The company will be investing around €42 million in the first phase of this new project.
The hydrogen plant is expected onstream by the end of 2013, supplying several com- panies in the Jilin chemical complex with high-purity hydrogen. This park is home to