HPIN CONSTRUCTION BILLY THINNES, NEWS EDITOR BT@HydrocarbonProcessing.com
North America The Aker Solutions and IHI partnership has received a “signed notice of substantial completion” for the Cameron LNG liquefied natural gas receipt terminal near Lake Charles, Louisiana. The Cameron LNG terminal project combined Aker Solutions’ expertise in regasification engineering, construction management, commissioning and startup with IHI’s design and manufacturing knowledge of LNG storage and processing systems. The terminal is capable of processing 1.5 Bscf/d of natural gas. US Development Group LLC will begin construction on the West Colton rail terminal, a new ethanol hub located in the Inland Empire area of southern California. Construction of the facility will occur in two phases. The first phase, located in Rialto, California, will consist of a manifold transfer system that will begin receiving and offloading ethanol railcars in the fall of 2009. The second phase includes full unit train capability and ethanol storage. It will be located on an adjacent site in Colton, California, and is scheduled for completion in mid-2010. The Phase 1 facility will have the capacity to handle the current Colton area demand for ethanol plus that required to meet the 2010 mandated increase to a 10% blend. Dynamic Fuels has awarded Emerson Process Management the contract to digitally automate its commercial-scale renewable diesel plant. With Emerson’s digital architecture, Dynamic Fuels plans to use thousands of Emerson smart devices, systems, and predictive maintenance software. The $138 million facility in Geismar, Louisiana, which is scheduled to begin operations in early 2010, will use Syntroleum’s biofuels manufacturing process, with plans to convert animal fats and greases into 75 million gpy of renewable diesel fuel. With some plant modifications, the Geismar facility can also produce renewable jet fuel. Foster Wheeler USA Corp. has a detailed design contract with a confidential client for a chemicals project in the United States. The total installed cost for the project is estimated at $100 million. Foster
Wheeler’s contract value, which was not disclosed, was included in the company’s second-quarter 2009 results.
Technip’s operating center in Düsseldorf, Germany, will execute the contract, which is scheduled to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2010.
Europe Alfa Laval has received an order for compact heat exchangers from one of the major refineries in Russia. The order value is about SEK 110 million and delivery is scheduled for 2010. The Alfa Laval compact heat exchangers will be used for preheating the crude before it goes into one of the main distillation processes. Alfa Laval predicts its heat exchangers will allow the Russian refinery to reduce its consumption by 340 MW and its CO2 emissions by 850,000 tpy. Technip has an engineering, procurement and construction management contract with Shell for the first phase of Shell’s Connect project in Germany. By connecting two existing refineries in Godorf and Wesseling, Shell plans to create the largest refinery in Germany. It will be called the Rheinland refinery. TREND ANALYSIS FORECASTING Hydrocarbon Processing maintains an extensive database of historical HPI project information. Current project activity is published three times a year in the HPI Construction Boxscore. When a project is completed, it is removed from current listings and retained in a database. The database is a 35-year compilation of projects by type, operating company, licensor, engineering/constructor, location, etc. Many companies use the historical data for trending or sales forecasting. The historical information is available in comma-delimited or Excel® and can be custom sorted to suit your needs. The cost of the sort depends on the size and complexity of the sort you request and whether a customized program must be written. You can focus on a narrow request such as the history of a particular type of project or you can obtain the entire 35-year Boxscore database, or portions thereof. Simply send a clear description of the data you need and you will receive a prompt cost quotation. Contact: Lee Nichols P. O. Box 2608 Houston, Texas, 77252-2608 Fax: 713-525-4626 e-mail: Lee.Nichols@gulfpub.com.
Shell plans to build a new hydrodesulfurization plant at its Pernis refinery in The Netherlands. The plant, expected to come onstream in the second half of 2011, will increase cleaner-burning, low-sulfur fuels production at the 400,000-bpd refinery. At the peak of construction activity, about 1,300 extra people will work on the Shell Pernis site, in addition to the regular Shell workforce of 2,100. Shell is starting construction of a major new lubricants blending plant in Russia. The plant, which is being built in Torzhok, Russia, will have a capacity of 180,000 tpy. Commercial operation is expected to begin by the end of 2010. The plant will increase Shell’s ability to provide motor oils, transport oils and industrial lubricants to the Russian market. Initial plans for the plant call for it to use advanced operational and organizational technologies and to employ a Russian workforce of around 150.
Middle East KBR has a contract with ConocoPhillips and Saudi Aramco to provide detailed engineering and procurement services for the utilities package and the interconnecting systems and pipe racks for the companies’ joint Yanbu export refinery project. The project is under an engineering, procurement and construction tendering process for the final investment decision by the project sponsors, and consists of a 400,000-bpd, full-conversion refinery in Yanbu Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. This award is an extension of KBR’s current project management contract with ConocoPhillips and Saudi Aramco and it follows the completion of front-end engineering and design services for the Yanbu refinery by KBR. Fluor Corp. recently completed the multibillion-dollar Olefins II project for a joint venture of Dow Chemical Co., Petrochemical Industries Co., Bubyan Petrochemical and Qurain Petrochemical Industries in Shuaiba, Kuwait, approximately 25 miles south of Kuwait City. Fluor HYDROCARBON PROCESSING OCTOBER 2009
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