Hydrocarbon Processing - January 2022 - 9

LEE NICHOLS, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF/ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
Lee.Nichols@HydrocarbonProcessing.com
Construction
AFRICA
Eni plans to launch its 3.4-MMtpy
FLNG vessel offshore Mozambique this
year. The Coral Sul FLNG vessel is being
built by Samsung Heavy Industries.
The vessel will utilize Air Product's dual
mixed-refrigerant process.
BP announced it will take a final investment
decision (FID) on Phase 2 of
the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim LNG project
in late 2022/early 2023. The project
involves the development of offshore natural
gas fields between Mauritania and
Senegal. Phase 1, with a total processing
capacity of 2.5 MMtpy, is underway, with
completion scheduled for late 2023. If
greenlighted, Phase 2 will double the facility's
capacity to 5 MMtpy.
ASIA-PACIFIC
Lianyungang Petrochemical Co.
Ltd. awarded LyondellBasell a technology
licensing contract for a new 400,000tpy
high-density polyethylene (HDPE)
plant. The new unit, which will utilize
LyondellBasell's Hostalen Advanced
Cascade Process, will be built in Lianyungang,
Jiangsu Province, China.
Cosmos Oil and JGC Holdings plan
to build Japan's first sustainable aviation
fuel (SAF) production plant. The project
will utilize Honeywell Ecofining technology
to convert used cooking oil into renewable
jet fuel. The Econfining process
was developed by Honeywell UOP and
Eni that converts non-edible natural oils,
animal fats and other waste feedstocks
to Honeywell Green Diesel and Honeywell
Green Jet Fuel, which are chemically
identical to petroleum-based counterparts.
The new SAF plant is scheduled to
begin operations in 2025.
Thirumalai Chemicals Ltd. greenlighted
the development of a new plant
to produce phthalic anhydride and fine
chemicals. The 90,000-tpy plant will be
in Dahej, Gujarat, India. The facility is
expected to begin operations in 2H 2024.
Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. (NRL)
has let another contract for the expansion
of its 6-MMtpy refinery in Brahmaputra,
India. NRL awarded thyssenkrupp
Industrial Solutions Pvt. Ltd. an engineering,
procurement, construction and
commissioning (EPCC) contract for a
new 6-MMtpy combined crude vacuum
distillation unit and amine treating unit.
This award is on top of the work thyssenkrupp
Industrial Solutions is already
conducting on the expansion project-
the company was awarded an EPC and
management (EPCM) contract for several
units being built (a petrochemical
fluidized catalytic cracker, an LPG treatment
unit, a naphtha hydrotreating unit
and isomerization units, among others).
NRL is investing nearly $3.6 B to expand
its refinery by 3 MMtpy to 9 MMtpy.
The project, scheduled to be completed by
2024, includes the revamp of the refinery's
delayed coking unit to increase capacity.
Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemicals
Co. is working with Carbon Recycling
International on a carbon recycling
plant. The Jiangsu Sailboat Green
Methanol plant-to be in Lianyungang,
Jiangsu province, China-will recycle
approximately 150,000 tpy of carbon
dioxide (CO2
feed downstream units, including three PE
lines and two polypropylene (PP) lines.
Chennai Petroleum Corp. Ltd.
awarded consultancy and engineering and
construction contracts to McDermott for
the company's 9-MMtpy grassroots Cauvery
Basin refinery. McDermott will handle
the project management consultancy and
EPCM work on the project, which includes
the construction of more than dozen units.
GAIL Ltd. is building India's first propane
dehydrogenation (PDH)-PP plant.
The $1.2-B facility will use propane to fuel
the PDH unit to produce propylene. The
propylene feedstock will be processed
into 500,000 tpy of PP. Engineers India
Ltd. was awarded the EPCM contract on
the project, which will use the CATOFIN
process technology from Lummus Technology
and proprietary catalysts from
Clariant. The PDH-PP plant will be in
the Usar Industrial Area, Usar, Maharashtra,
India. Operations are scheduled to
begin in 2024.
GAIL is also expanding PP capacity at
) and 20,000 tpy of hydrogen
to produce 100,000 tpy of methanol.
The $35-MM project is scheduled to go
online in 2023.
KBR will license technology to a new
dual-pressure nitric acid plant in South
Korea. The 1,200-tpd plant is being developed
by Hanwha at its operations in
Yeosu. According to KBR's press release,
the company will provide licensing, basic
engineering design and technical support.
ExxonMobil has greenlighted a $10-B
petrochemical complex to be developed
in Huizhou City, Guangdong province,
China. The Dayawan plant will include a
1.6-MMtpy flexible steam cracker that will
CANADA
Northern Petrochemical Corp.
plans to build a carbon-neutral ammoHydrocarbon
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its existing PP unit in Pata, Uttar Pradesh,
India. The PP expansion project will enable
the facility to increase PP production
by 60,000 tpy. Engineers India Ltd.
will oversee the EPCM contract, while
W. R. Grace is the technology licensor
for the plant.
Triangle Energy has awarded a contract
to Plant Process Group to conduct
front-end engineering design (FEED)
work on a refinery project in Western
Australia. Triangle Energy plans to build
a 5,000-bpd flexible feed renewable fuel
refinery in the North Perth basin in Western
Australia. FEED work is expected to
be completed by the end of 1Q 2022,
with full operations scheduled to begin
in 1Q 2024.
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