MOSCOW (MRC) -- TechnipFMC has won a contract from Greece’s Motor Oil Hellas (MOH) to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) services for a new naphtha production complex at MOH’s Corinth refinery near Athens, said the company.
As part of the contract, TechnipFMC will deliver engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) services for the proposed 22,000-b/d naphtha complex, which will include a naphtha hydrotreating unit, a platforming unit, and an isomerization unit, the service provider said.
The project also involves upgrading existing but unidentified utilities and offsite units to meet the requirements of the new complex, according to TechnipFMC.
Once completed, the complex will enable MOH to increase its production of Euro 5-quality gasoline as part of the operator’s strategy to expand production of clean fuels.
Valued at between USD75-250 million, the EPCM contract follows MOH’s previous award to TechnipFMC for execution of front-end engineering design on the naphtha complex, which has been already been completed, the service provider said.
On May 29, privately held MOH’s board of directors approved construction of the naphtha treatment complex at total budgeted expenditure of EUR310 million.
The new complex, which will contribute to the refinery’s increased production of cleaner fuels as well as kerosine and hydrogen, is scheduled to be completed by yearend 2021, MOH said.
As MRC informed informed earlier, TechnipFMC been awarded a large reimbursable contract by ExxonMobil for detailed engineering, procurement, and construction for the recently announced crude expansion project in Beaumont, Texas, USA. The awarded scope covers the addition of four new units – atmospheric pipe still, kerosene hydrotreater, diesel hydrotreater and benzene recovery at ExxonMobil’s Refinery.
In December 2019, ExxonMobil halted PE production at its site in Notre Dame de Gravenchon, France due to commercial reasons, without providing further details.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 1,904,410 tonnes in the first eleven months of 2019, up by 6% year on year. Shipments of all PE grades increased. PE shipments increased from both domestic producers and foreign suppliers. The PP consumption in the Russian market was 1,161,830 tonnes in January-November 2019, up by 7% year on year. Deliveries of all grades of propylene polymers increased, with the homopolymer PP segment accounting for the largest increase.
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