Fluor’s Kuwait joint venture has commissioned two boilers at the new Al-Zour refinery.
The American company said it had generated steam, but Fluor is running on the assignment as a component of a joint venture with Daewoo Engineering.
The work at the refinery is from the Kuwait Integrated Petrochemical Industrial Company (KIPIC) project packages 2 and 3.
Fluor is running in two engineering, acquisition, production and structure packages at the Al-Zour plant. When finished, you will have a processing capacity of 615,000 barrels consistent with the day, or 535,000 bpd of heavy crude oil.
“This milestone marks the final touch for several critical application systems to start and move the refinery into advertising operations with our continued support,” said Mark Fields, president of Fluorine, Energy and Chemicals.
“Timely delivery of the new Al-Zour refinery is a must for Kuwait’s economy. Our team worked intensively with KIPIC to continue with approximately 15,000 employees on site to maintain progress around the COVID-19 pandemic. This achievement was made imaginable”. through the well-designed protection and adequacy strategy of the joint venture team, which was implemented with rigorous discipline. »
KIPIC Deputy Executive Director Khaled Al-Awadhi described working with the Fluor-led company as “true good fortune, not only for KIPIC, but also for the state of Kuwait, and will ensure energy self-sufficiency and greater prosperity for all of us”. . “KIPIC reported that the fuel line was put into service at the refinery in July.
The manufacturing backyard of Fluor’s China joint venture, COOEC Fluor Heavy Industries, 188 modules. These weighed a total of 65,000 tons.
The plant will produce very low sulfur diesel for global markets, as well as jet fuel, kerosene and naphtha for petrochemical plants, and will use one of the hydraulic processing technologies to convert mild and heavy crudes into low sulfur fuel oils. (LSFO) and milder products. .
The Fluor joint venture signed the contract for the paints in October 2015. Fluor’s contract percentage is $ 2. 6 billion.
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