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New build projects and revamps create buoyant refinery environment
Plant construction and revamps are keeping the refining market buoyant, says Eugene McCarthy.
La construcción y renovación de plantas está manteniendo boyante el mercado de refinado, declara Eugene McCarthy.
Anlangenerrichtungen und -erneuerungen von beleben den Raffinationsmarkt, sagt Eugene McCarthy.
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luor has won a five-year enterprise framework agreement for engineering and project management services for Shell’s downstream, and potentially,
upstream onshore projects in Europe, Africa and the Middle East (EAME). Under terms of this agreement, Fluor will provide design, project and construction management, home-office and site-based engineering services. “Tis new enterprise framework
agreement with Shell for the EAME region demonstrates Fluor’s alignment with Shell’s global strategy,” said Peter Oosterveer, president of Fluor’s energy & chemicals group. Te agreement includes an option to be extended for another five years and opportunities to include Shell’s upstream projects and other geographic regions.
Maintenance services Fluor is currently working on Shell projects in Malaysia, the Philippines and Canada. Fluor also provides operations and maintenance services at Shell sites in Australia, Qatar, Russia and the Netherlands. Te company is also managing two projects for Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) at its world- scale Jamnagar refining and petrochemical complex on the west coast of India in Gujarat. In addition to assisting RIL
Fig. 1. The Texas City refinery is part of a multi-billion dollar BP sell off.
Image: BP.
in project management, Fluor will also perform engineering and procurement services for a pet coke gasification project. RIL’s investment in the expansion of energy and petrochemicals projects represents one of the largest
such investments globally. Te proposed coke gasification facility is also among the largest such projects ever built. “Tese two contract awards that will
support Reliance Industries’ next phase of growth in India are also important milestones for Fluor, but most of all, I am truly excited about our relationship with this very important client,” said Oosterveer. “Fluor’s global project execution capability coupled with close to 20 years of growing our engineering and technical talent in New Delhi have positioned us for this key project in India. Reliance is a global player in the energy and petrochemical industries and we are poised to successfully deliver value-added projects to meet their capital expansion and operational objectives.” Te scope of the project management
services to be provided by Fluor includes several world-scale units including petroleum coke gasification units, refinery off-gas cracker and downstream petrochemical plants, a captive power plant, and associated utilities and offsites. Te completed gasification project will gasify petroleum coke to produce fuel and hydrogen for the expanded refinery and petrochemical complexes and captive power plant as well as feedstock for future chemicals production.
Texas City sell-off BP has reached an agreement to sell its Texas City, Texas, refinery and a portion of its retail and logistics network in the Southeast USA to Marathon Petroleum for US$2.5 billion (€1.9 billion) (Fig. 1). “Today’s announcement is the second major milestone in the strategic refocusing of our US fuels business,” said Iain Conn, chief executive of BP’s global refining and marketing business. “Together with the sale of our Carson, California refinery, announced in August, the divestment of Texas City will allow us to focus BP’s US
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