Hydrocarbon Processing - April 2021 - 9

LEE NICHOLS, EDITOR/ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
Lee.Nichols@HydrocarbonProcessing.com

Construction
AFRICA
Sprea Misr has awarded Nuberg
EPC an engineering, procurement and
construction (EPC) contract for a 500tpd sulfuric acid plant in Ramadan City,
Egypt. The plant will also incorporate a
5-MW turbine with a steam-based power
generation plant. The sulfuric acid produced will be used to produce ammonia
and urea for the agriculture industry.

ASIA-PACIFIC

Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. (NRL)
has selected Axens to supply advanced
technologies for the Numaligarh Refinery
Expansion project. Located in Golaghat,
Assam, India, NRL is expanding the refinery by 6 MMtpy to 9 MMtpy. The expansion will enable NRL to produce fuels
that adhere to India's strict Bharat Stage-6
(BS-6) fuel standard. Axens will license
technologies for the naphtha hydrotreating unit, continuous catalytic reforming
unit, C5-C6 isomerization unit and the
fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) gasoline
selective desulfurization unit.
NRL also awarded Lummus Technology a contract to supply its Indmax
FCC technology for the refinery. According to Lummus, the Indmax FCC unit
will process 1.96 MMtpy of mixed hydrotreated VGO feed with the flexibility
to operate in gasoline mode, as well as in
maximum propylene production mode.
This contract is in addition to an earlier
announced technology licensing award
by NRL to Chevron Lummus Global,
a JV between Chevron and Lummus.
Chevron Lummus Global will provide its
LC-FINING technology for the refinery.
Refining NZ has made significant
progress in a study to convert the Marsden Point refinery in New Zealand to
an import terminal. Due to increased
competition from modern Asian refineries, coupled with a collapse in refined
product demand from COVID-19, Refining NZ plans to invest approximately
$145 MM to convert the refinery into an
import terminal.

Honeywell UOP will provide several licensed technologies to Shandong
Yulong Petrochemical Co. Ltd.'s integrated petrochemicals complex in Longkou, Shandong Province, China. These
platforming and aromatics technologies
will enable Shandong Yulong to produce
3 MMtpy of mixed aromatics.
Indian Oil Corp.'s (IOC's) subsidiary,
Chennai Petroleum Corp. Ltd., has received approval to build a 9-MMtpy refinery in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, India.
The $4-B refinery, which will take approximately 4 yr to build from final investment
approval, will produce gasoline and diesel
that adhere to India's BS-6 fuel standard.
Toyo Engineering Corp. and Velocys
have signed a collaboration agreement to
produce sustainable jet fuel and other renewable fuels in Japan. The agreement
follows the successful launch of the JV's
biomass-to-jet fuel demonstration plant in
Japan. The latest agreement is in hopes of
launching a commercial-scale biomass-tojet fuel plant in the country.
IOC has started construction on a new
$132.7-MM catalytic dewaxing unit at its
Haldia refinery in Haldia, India. The unit,
which will use Chevron Lummus Global's
ISODEWAXING and ISOFINISHING
technologies, will increase the refinery's ability to produce lubricant base oils. The project is scheduled to be completed in late 2022.
In late January, LyondellBasell and
Sinopec finalized a JV to produce propylene oxide (PO) and styrene monomer
(SM). The JV, which will operate under
the name Ningbo ZRCC LyondellBasell New Material Co. Ltd., will build a
275,000-tpy PO plant and a 600,000-tpy
SM plant in Zhenhai Ningbo, China. The
products produced will be used for the domestic market.

EUROPE

Sibur announced in mid-February
that the $10-B Amur Gas Chemical com-

plex will be operational by mid-2024,
six months ahead of schedule. The complex will produce 2.3 MMtpy of polyethylene (PE) and 400,000 tpy of polypropylene (PP).
ORLEN awarded DuPont Clean
Technologies a licensing, engineering
and technical services contract for an alkylation and spent acid regeneration units
at the Mažeikiai refinery in Mažeikiai,
Lithuania. The two units will increase the
refinery's complexity and flexibility. Both
units are expected to startup in 2025.
OMV is expanding and modernizing its cracker and petrochemical units
at the Burghausen refinery in Germany.
The projects, which are scheduled to be
completed in 3Q 2022, will help OMV
increase ethylene and propylene production by 50,000 tpy.
KazMunayGas awarded a front-end
engineering and design (FEED) contract
to JGC for a planned gas separation plant.
The 957-MMft3d facility will be built in
Kazakhstan and provide ethane feedstock
to Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries Inc.'s (KPII's) Atyrau gas chemical
complex. The Atyrau complex will use
the ethane as a feedstock for a planned
1.25-MMtpy PE plant. At present, KPII is
building a $2.6-B, 500,000-tpy PP plant at
the site, which will be completed by the
end of this year. The site's second phase
includes the construction of the PE unit.
In late January, Russia's Sberbank approved more than $3.6 B in additional
financing for Novatek's Arctic LNG 2
project. The $21-B, 20-MMtpy project
is scheduled to begin operations in 2023
and reach full operations in 2026.
Tecnimont SpA and KT-Kinetics
Technology SpA, subsidiaries of Maire
Tecnimont, were awarded two EPC contracts for SOCAR's Heydar Aliyev refinery modernization project in Azerbaijan.
According to Maire Tecnimont's press
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