MOSCOW (MRC) -- Pemex Refinacion, the refining arm of Mexico's Pemex, selected a consortium comprised of SENER and the industrial division of Obrascon Huarte Lain for a turnkey project to build a 35 MW cogeneration plant in its Francisco I Madero oil refinery, located in the state of Tamaulipas, according to Hydrocarbonprocessing.
The future facility will be equipped with a heavy-duty type gas turbine as well as with a Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG), with supplementary combustion associated to the gas turbine, which will generate 115 t/h of steam at a pressure of 19 kg/cm2 and 275 C.
This steam will be used within the refinery in the production process of the new gasoline and diesel desulfurization plants.
The other auxiliary equipment needed by the plant will include a natural gas measuring and control station, a system of air compressors for instrumentation and in-plant use, a continuous drain recovery system and a treated water cooling system, among other systems, as well as interconnections with the refinery.
As MRC wrote previously, Technip consortium has been awarded a contract by Pemex for the revamp of a Mexican refinery. The contract includes the revamp of a conversion unit of the Ing. Hector R. Lara Sosa refinery, located in Cadereyta, Mexico. The project is scheduled to be completed in the second semester of 2014.
We remind that recently Pemex has signed a noncommercial agreement with Exxon Mobil to share technical and scientific information of mutual interest. The five-year agreement renews the two oil companies' relations in matters of cooperation.
Petroleos Mexicanos or Pemex is a Mexican state-owned petroleum company. Pemex has a total asset worth of USD415.75 billion, and is the world's second largest non-publicly listed company by total market value. Its products include petrochemicals, natural gas, liquid gas, sulphur, gasoline, kerosene, and diesel.
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