Al Zour Refinery Project
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Summary Information
- Also known as Al Zoor Refinery Project
- Ownership: KNPC
- Website: http://www.knpc.com.kw/
- Wiki Page: Al Zour Refinery
- Location: Kuwait
- Capacity: 30.75 million tons/annum & 615,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Project Stage: Planning
- Expected Completion: 2019
- Budget:
The Project
- Project Type: Greenfield Refinery
- Project Summary: The New Refinery Project is a 615,000 bpd grassroots refinery to be built in Kuwait and will consist of over 15 process units plus buildings, utilities and offsite facilities.
- Main Contractors
- AMEC: Project Management Consultancy (PMC) contract
- Honeywell: Integrated Control and Safety System (ICSS)
- UOP: Licences for various units
- Fluor / Daewoo / Hyundai : EPC package for a variety of key process units, utilities and infrastructure
- Cancelled Contracts
- HDEC received the fifth package worth around U$ 1.12 billion to build the marine facilities
Refining Units
- Residuum Hydrotreater Complex - 330,000 BPSD - Chevron Lummus Global
- 50,000 barrels per day (bpd) RFCC complex with ethylene and propylene recovery,
- 24,000 bpd Honeywell UOP SelectfiningTM unit to produce low-sulfur gasoline.
- Two Honeywell UOP Merox™ units
- UOP Ethermax™ unit
- Butamer™ unit
- CCR Platforming™ unit, 66,000 barrel-per-day (bpd)
- naphtha hydrotreater, 74,000 bpd
- LD Parex™ aromatics complex — including the Honeywell UOP Sulfolane™, Isomar™ and Tatoray™ processes
- Oleflex™ propane dehydrogenation unit, 660,000 metric tons per year
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- Will process Kuwait Export, Medium and Heavy grade crudes
Products Produced
- The refinery will produce 225,000BPSD of low sulfur Fuel Oil(1.0wt.%Sulfur)to meet the growing demand of power generation plants in Kuwait.
- Will produce 340,000 bpd of export products
History
- 2012 - Project expected to be restarted
- 2012 - AMEC awarded $528 million Project Management Consultancy (PMC) contract
- 2013 - Honeywell awarded ICSS contract
- 2015 - Fluor awarded EPC contract
- 2017 - UOP awarded contracts for upgrading
Other Information
- Due to political problems, the project was cancelled.
- However, it is now going to be revived
Relevant Links
- KNPC, Projects
- SK E&C Receives Orders for Plant Construction in Amount of $2.06 Billion
- Chevron Lummus Global Selected by Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation to Build World’s Largest Residuum Hydrotreater Complex
- Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd. tops U$ 5 Billion in New Orders from Overseas
- AMEC awarded $528 million new refinery contract by KNPC, Kuwait
- Honeywell To Automate Systems For Largest Refinery In The Middle East
- Fluor Awarded Kuwait’s Al-Zour Contracts
- Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company to Expand Al-Zour Refinery with Honeywell Technology
- Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company to Expand Al-Zour Refinery with Honeywell Technology
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