Pointe A Pierre Refinery Project

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Summary Information

• Ownership: Petrotrin
• Website: http://www.petrotrin.com/
• Wikipage: Pointe A Pierre Refinery
• Location: Pointe-a-Pierre, Trinidad
• Capacity: 8.75 million tons/annum & 175,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Project Stage: Close to completion
• Expected Completion:
  • GOP: 2010
  • ULSD: 2012
• Budget:
  • GOP: $180 Million
  • ULSD: $220 Million

The Project

• Project Type: Upgrading to produce clean fuels
• Project Summary: GOP
  • UOP will provide Petrotrin technology for a CCR Platforming™ unit with a Chlorsorb™ system for reforming naphtha to produce high-octane fuel; a Penex™ unit for producing clean-burning gasoline; and a Merox™ unit for cleaning liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
  • UOP will also revamp a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit used to convert vacuum gas oil to gasoline, and upgrade the FCC unit with a third stage separator (TSS)
• Project Summary: ULSD
  • The ULSD Plant is designed to process 40,000 barrels per stream day (BPSD) of diesel boiling range feeding stocks to produce a diesel product with a total sulphur of 8 ppm max, a total aromatics content of less than 25% wt and a cetane number of 51 min consistent with the most stringent and forecasted future on road fuel specifications
• Main Contractors: Samsung Engineering
• Licences: UOP

Refining Units

• CCR Platforming
• Merox unit
• Penex unit
• FCC unit - Revamp
• Diesel Desulphurisation

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

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Products Produced

• The GOP project will increase gasoline yield and improve the quality of the gasoline produced.
• The ULSD project will enable Petrotrin to produce a diesel product with a total sulphur of 8 ppm max, a total aromatics content of less than 25% wt and a cetane number of 51 min consistent with the most stringent and forecasted future on road fuel specifications

Other Information

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Relevant Links

• Project Page
• Samsung Engineering won a refinery unit project
• Samsung Engineering Wins 180 million USD Trinidad and Tobago Refinery Plant Order
• UOP TECHNOLOGY TO HELP TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO’S PETROTRIN PRODUCE CLEAN BURNING, HIGH OCTANE GASOLINE
• The Gasoline Optimization Programme, Ministry of Energy

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