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LEE NICHOLS, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF/ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
Lee.Nichols@HydrocarbonProcessing.com
Construction
ASIA-PACIFIC
Ulsan PP Co., a JV between PolyMirae
Co. Ltd. (a partnership between
LyondellBasell and DL Chemical)
and SK Advanced, commissioned its
400,000-tpy polypropylene (PP) facility
in June. The plant, located in Ulsan,
South Korea, will help satisfy increasing
PP demand in Asia. The plant will use
LyondellBasell's Spheripol PP process
technology to produce PP.
Sarawak Petchem Sdn. Bhd. is
building a 1.7-MMtpy methanol plant
in Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia. The
more than $1-B project is being built
by Samsung Engineering. In June, Sarawak
Petchem awarded a technology licensing
contract to Air Liquide Engineering
and Construction to provide
its Lurgi MegaMethanol technology
for the plant. Under the contract, Air
Liquide will also build an air separation
unit that will produce 2,200 tpd of
oxygen. The capital-intensive methanol
plant is scheduled to begin operations
in 2023.
Crown LNG plans to build a
7.2-MMtpy LNG receiving terminal on
India's east coast, 11 km offshore Kakinada.
Crown LNG announced it will
take FID on the project in late 2022. If
built, the facility will begin operations
in late 2025/early 2026. The terminal
will help east India increase natural gas
imports, which will be used for power
generation
and fertilizer
and petrochemicals
production.
Bangladesh Chemical Industries
Corp. plans to commission its $1.25-B
Ghorasal Polash Urea Fertilizer factory
in 4Q 2023. Once completed, the 2,800tpd
granular urea production complex
will be the largest factory in the country's
industrial sector. The factory, being
built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
and China National Chemical Engineering,
will help satisfy increasing demand
for fertilizers in the country.
CANADA
Covenant Energy awarded a technology
licensing contract to Haldor Topsoe
for the company's 6,000-bpd renewable
fuels facility. The project, located in Saskatchewan,
will use Haldor Topsoe's HydroFlex
technology to produce clean diesel
from vegetable oil. The plant is scheduled
to begin operations in early 2024.
EUROPE
As part of a new deep refining complex
at the Moscow refinery, JSC Gazpromneft-MNPZ,
a subsidiary of PJSC Gazprom
Neft, awarded an engineering and
procurement contract to Técnicas Reunidas
to build a 2.4-MMtpy grassroots
delayed coking unit (DCU). The installation
of the DCU is part of Gazprom
Neft's $4.8-B modernization and upgrade
of the Moscow refinery. The project is
scheduled to be commissioned in 2025.
Horisont Energi has selected Technip
Energies to conduct a conceptual
study for the design of Europe's first largescale
blue ammonia project. The Barents
Blue carbon-neutral ammonia plant will
be in Hammerfest, Norway. The plant,
based off Haldor Topsoe's SynCOR Ammonia
technology, will capture 99% of
produced CO2
and transport it and inject
it deep under the Barents Sea.
UPM-Kymmene has awarded a
contract to Siemens to supply electrification,
automation and digitalization
technologies for the company's biorefinery
being built in Leuna, Germany. The
220,000-tpy facility will convert 100%
wood into bio-based mono-ethylene glycol,
mono-propylene glycol and renewable
functional fillers. The biorefinery
will be completed in late 2022.
Galp Energia plans to install a 100MW
electrolyzer at its Sines refinery in
Portugal. The new electrolyzer will help
the refiner power the Sines refinery and
lessen the facility's carbon footprint.
The project's cost could reach more than
$230 MM. If needed, the project could
be expanded up to 1,000 MW at a cost of
more than $1.2 B.
LATIN AMERICA
Petrobras, Brazil's state-owned petroleum
company, plans to invest $300 MM
through 2025 to improve efficiencies at
its domestic refineries-referred to as
the RefTOP initiative. These investments
will be made at several refineries not on
the company's divestment portfolio;
Petrobras is selling nine of its 13 refineries.
The refineries involved in the upgrade
and modernization program include the
Refinaria de Paulína (REPLAN), the
Duque de Caxias refinery (REDUC),
Refinaria Henrique Lage (REVAP), Refinaria
Presidente Bernardes (RPBC) and
Refinaria de Capuava (RECAP).
At the time of this publication, Petrobras
launched an international tender for
engineering, procurement and construction
(EPC) services for a new diesel hydrotreater
to be installed at the REPLAN
refinery in Paulína, São Paulo. The new unit
will enable the refinery to produce Diesel
S10-an ultra-low-sulfur-diesel-and increase
jet fuel production. Similar projects
are expected to take place at the REDUC
refinery Baixada Fluminense in the state of
Rio de Janeiro and the REVAP refinery in
São José dos Campos, São Paulo.
The RefTOP program also includes
the installation of new digital technologies,
automation and process optimization
techniques to improve refining efficiency,
increase flexibility to process domestic
presalt crudes, decrease environmental
footprint and produce clean fuels.
MIDDLE EAST
Reliance and Abu Dhabi National
Oil Co. (ADNOC) announced plans to
build a capital-intensive chemical complex
in Ruwais, United Arab Emirates
(UAE). The more than $2.1-B project
will be in the TA'ZIZ complex, a worldscale
chemicals and industrial hub being
developed in the UAE. Once completed,
Reliance and ADNOC's new chemical
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