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MOSCOW (MRC) -- S&B has announced
the successful, on-time completion of two NGL fractionation plants for Phillips
66, reported Hydrocarbonprocessing.
The plants have a combined capacity of 300,000 bpd, quadrupling the
processing capacity at the Phillips 66 Sweeny Hub.
“The successful
completion of this project is due to our team and the partnership we created
with Phillips 66 throughout the entire process,” said David Taylor, COO of
S&B Engineers and Constructors. “Planning, designing, and building a
large-scale plant, such as this, takes a significant amount of time and effort.
Phillips 66 trusted our processes, procedures and workflows, which created an
environment that allowed us all to succeed.”
The on-time mechanical
completion of this project has increased significance because peak construction
occurred at a time when COVID-19 cases were rising in the United
States.
“Safety is our number one value at S&B,” said Taylor. “With
2,000 people working on site, we took precautions early to ensure the safety of
our team members. Mandates for face coverings, staggered lunches and buses,
social distancing, and compliance auditing were all important protocol changes
that our team members had to accommodate to keep each other safe.”
In the
last five years, S&B has designed and built 13 NGL fractionation plants.
With the completion of this project S&B has now designed and installed more
than 2 MMbpd of NGL fractionation capacity for its clients.
This project
added the second and third fractionation plants to the original first train
built for Phillips 66. All three plants were executed contractually lump sum in
the Phillips 66 Sweeny Hub in Old Ocean, Texas.
As MRC
informed before, last month, US refiner Phillips 66 said it plans to
reconfigure its refinery in Rodeo, California to produce renewable fuels from
used cooking oil, fats, greases and soybean oils.
We remind that US-based
Phillips 66 remains open to developing another
ethane cracker for its Chevron Phillips Chemical (CP Chem) joint venture, the
refiner's CEO said in March 2018.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks
for producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
According to
MRC's ScanPlast
report, Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 1,594,510 tonnes in the
first nine months of 2020, up by 1% year on year. Only high denstiy polyethylene
(HDPE) shipments increased. At the same time, PP shipments to the Russian market
reached 880,130 tonnes in the nine months of 2020 (calculated using the formula:
production minus exports plus imports, excluding producers' inventories as of 1
January, 2020). Supply increased exclusively of PP random copolymer. |
