Project Highlights Selection
- AUTOOIL- Augusta & Trecate Autoil 2 Projects (Scanfiner)
Client:
ESSO ITALIANA and SARPOM
Location:
Augusta and Trecate (Italy)
Completion Year:
2004
Nature of Project:
The clean fuels projects at Esso Italiana's Augusta refinery and SARPOM's (an ExxonMobil/ERG joint venture) refinery at Trecate were implemented to produce gasoline (mogas) and diesel to comply with the EU's Auto Oil 2 specifications (50 ppm sulphur in mogas and diesel and 35 LV% aromatics in mogas).
At both locations, a grassroots SCANfiner has been constructed to deliver low sulphur Mogas. SCANfining, or selective cat naphtha hydrofining, is ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company's proprietary process for selective catalytic hydrodesulphurization. Based on a proprietary catalyst, the process removes sulphur from FCC naphtha with minimum hydrogenation of olefins, thus preserving octane. The existing gasoil hydrofiners have been revamped along with the supporting utilities and offsites.Scope of Work:
Front –end engineering, including development with ExxonMobil of design specifications and early engineering and procurement of critical items, detail engineering, procurement and construction to Mechanical Completion. The venture team’s objectives, in priority order, were to:
- achieve high safety standards during construction and start-up
- achieve design objectives and meet quality and operations integrity standards
- achieve cost performances consistent with start-up date objective
- minimize impact on refinery operations
All of the bjectives were met; in particular, a world-class safety performance was achieved, a considerable challenge with the required completion of many turnarounds in close sequence. Over 1,200,000 manhours were worked on site for the two projects, with no lost time injuries or recordable injuries, according to OSHA regulations.- PJ21- Reconfiguration of Raffinerie de Port Jerome
Client:
ESSO RAFFINAGE S.A.F.
Location:
Port Jerome, France
Completion Year:
2004
Nature of Project:
ESSO SAF Port Jérome-Gravenchon refinery in Normandy is one of the largest refineries in Europe. The clean fuel project , PJ21 represents one of the most important environmental improvement project taken in Europe. PJ21 allowed the refinery to meet new EU automotive fuel specifications and reduce significantly its high-sulphur heavy fuel oil production. PJ21 involved reconfiguring the refinery to produce more higher values products:
- A new 48.0000 barrels per stream day high-pressure desulphurisation Gofiner Unit to upgrade the feedstock to the catalytic cracker
- A new monoethanolamine treatment Unit to remove hydrogen sulphide from gas
- A news sour water stripper to remove hydrogen sulphide and ammonia from water and a new flare
- Associated revamping operations have been carried out in parallel to upgrade the fluidised catalytic cracker, the sulphur recovery and utilitiesScope of Work:
Front End Loading, engineering, procurement and construction management. Both FEED and EPC phases were executed through the joint effort of teams from Paris, Milan and UK offices working together for the project
- TRC2000 - Residue Catalytic Cracking Project
Client:
Tamoil SA Raffinerie de Collombey (TRC) - (Switzerland)
Location:
Collombey CH
Completion Year:
2003
Nature of Project:
The Tamoil Raffinerie de Collombey aimed to cut fuel oil production.
The cracking of heavy hydrocarbons produced by the topping unit produce light distillate of higher value and marketability. This is achieved by means of the R2R process technology licensed by IFP.
The R2R process is a fluid catalytic cracking process incorporating a two-stage regeneration system, a unique feed injection system, a proprietary catalyst disengager and a catalyst cooler (optional).
The operating objectives are covering the two conventional modes for a catalytic cracking unit:
- Maximum Gasoline (MG)
- Maximum Middle Distillate (MD)
The capacity of the unit is set at 15750 BPSD for the maximum achievable conversion in the standard configuration (Case 100% MG)
The modifications included the revamp and increase capacity of existing HDS and Dewaxing. The new refinery configuration produce gasoline and gasoil targeted at the year 2005 market specifications.Scope of Work:
The assignment to FWI was based on the following contractual scheme:
- L.S. Services
- Conversion factors to be applied to the Open Book Estimate
- Maximum Guaranteed Ceiling Price (MGCP) for LSTK
The project has been converted into a LSTK project including:
- Detailed Engineering
- Procurement
- Construction Supervision
- Pre-commissioning and Commissioning Services up to Ready for Start up- CHEMOPETROL - 250.000 t/y Polypropylene Plant
Client:
CHEMOPETROL a.s.
Location:
Litvinov (Czech Republic)
Completion Year:
2002
Nature of Project:
Polypropylene is one of the world's most widely-used petrochemical products, and it remains one of the fastest growing petrochemical market sectors. Amoco (now BP) licensed polymerization technology was selected for the 250,000 tonnes per year PP2 plant. This technology is based on gas-phase polymerization at relatively low pressures (less than 3 MPa g) in two horizontal reactors. The plant includes a propylene recovery unit (PRU) which uses membrane separation technology and allows the separation of propylene and nitrogen contained in the off-gas leaving the polymerisation section. The addition of the PRU minimizes the consumption of both nitrogen and propylene and makes the BP gas-phase technology particularly attractive with regards to versatility, operability, product range, yield and monomer consumption. The whole PP2 plant has been designed to minimise the possible emissions and sources of polluting or noxious substances. Because Czech laws and regulations were not completely aligned with certain European Union Directives, double certification had to be sought to comply with both Czech and European equipment regulations.
Scope of Work:
Besides detail engineering, procurement and construction, our Milan team’s scope included all start-up activities and plant operation up to the client’s signature of the provisional acceptance certificate. Just over two years after signing the LSTK EPC contract, Foster Wheeler in Milan successfully started up Chemopetrol, a.s.’ new polypropylene plant (PP2), at Litvinov, the most important petrochemical complex in Czech Republic. Construction safety performance was outstanding, with zero lost time incidents. The results obtained during the performance test demonstrated that the guaranteed performance of the plant in terms of monomer, catalyst and utilities consumption and polymer production was achieved and that the production during the normal run will be likely to exceed 110% of the design capacity.
- TUPRAS - Izmir Refinery Upgrading Project
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Client:
TUPRAS
Location:
IZMIR (Turkey)
Completion Year:
2002
Nature of Project:
The project consisted in the realization of the following grass roots process units:
- CCR Reforming Unit: designed to process 20.000 BPSD of the reforming unit charge by the Heavy Naphta Hydrotreating unit. UOP licensed CCR platforming unit. - Light Naphta Isomerization unit: designed to process 12.000 BPSD of the Isomerization charge produced by the Light Naphtha Hydrotreating Unit. UOP licensed Penex/DIH process unit - Hydrodesulphurisation Units: o Light Naphta Hydrotreating unit designed to process 12.000 BPSD of Fresh Stock Charge. UOP licensed light naphtha hydrotreater o Heavy Naphta Hydrotreating unit designed to process 20.000 BPSD of Fresh Stock Charge. UOP licensed Naphtha Unionfining Unit - Sour Naphta Splitting Unit: designed to process 28.300 BPSD of Naphtha charge stock. UOP licensed Naphtha Splitting Unit In addition to the above, existing units were revamped and utilities/offsite facilities were upgraded, including: o Revamping of existing Gas-Amine Unit o New main and acid flare units o New cooling water systems and expansion of the existing system o New compressed air system o New tanks o Interconnecting to existing process unitsScope of Work:
Engineering, procurement and construction management up to successful test run. The project has been awarded for execution on a Lump Sum Turn Key Basis.