KUWAIT - Shuaiba Refinery.The Shuaiba refinery was destroyed during the Gulf war. It had to be rebuilt. It had been the most recent of the country's refineries, equipped with very advanced facilities, and had been excluded in the big upgrading programme carried out in the 1980s. Reconstruction at Shuaiba did not get under way until urgent repair work had been completed and KNPC KNPC Kuwait National Petroleum Company had some effective refining refining, any of various processes for separating impurities from crude or semifinished materials. It includes the finer processes of metallurgy, the fractional distillation of petroleum into its commercial products, and the purifying of cane, beet, and maple sugar capacity available at its two other plants. Work on Shuaiba started in the second quarter of 1992, when KNPC awarded a three-year contract to Catalytic cat·a·lyt·ic adj. Of, involving, or acting as a catalyst: "Deregulation's catalytic power . . . is still reshaping the banking, communications, and transportation industries" Ellyn E. Maintenance Ltd., a subsidiary of Delta Catalytic Corp. of Canada. This contract was for repairing facilities, making modifications and continuing to maintain the plant after its recommissioning. Another contract was awarded by KNPC to Daelim Engineering South Korea in December 1992 for the reconstruction of the tank farm. Engineers India was also involved at Shuaiba as part of studies it undertook on all of Kuwait's three refineries. The refinery was brought partially back on stream in November 1993 with a capacity of 130,000 b/d from one of its two distillation distillation, process used to separate the substances composing a mixture. It involves a change of state, as of liquid to gas, and subsequent condensation. The process was probably first used in the production of intoxicating beverages. units, and was running at about 150,000 b/d early in 1994. KNPC announced on Feb. 16, 1997 that repair work at Shuaiba had been completed and that the refinery had reached its pre-war capacity of 195,000 b/d. The refinery's control room was upgrated by Black & Veatch Pritchard of the US under a $23m contract awarded at the end of 1996. The refinery's slate is weighted towards middle distillates, with gasoil accounting for 34% of its output, kerosine kerosene, kerosine see paraffin (2). for about 20% and gasoline gasoline or petrol, light, volatile mixture of hydrocarbons for use in the internal-combustion engine and as an organic solvent, obtained primarily by fractional distillation and "cracking" of petroleum, but also obtained from natural gas, by for almost 10%. The plant has a 42,000 b/d catalytic hydrotreater. A 300,000 t/y calcined petroleum coke Petroleum coke (often abbreviated petcoke) is a carbonaceous solid derived from oil refinery coker units or other cracking processes.[1] Other coke has traditionally been derived from coal. plant is to be built at Shuaiba. Calcined petroleum coke is mainly used in aluminium production with demand for the product growing globally and in the Gulf, where there are major aluminium smelters This is a list of primary aluminium smelters in the world. Primary aluminium smelters Aluminium smelters of the world [1] [2] [3] [4] Country Location Coordinates Plant Capacity (kt/year) Company Name Ownership . This is to be tendered shortly. Conoco, operator of Dubai's oilfields, has acted as a technical advisor to KNPC on this project. Its role has concentrated on engineering, processing, maintenance and safety. (Conoco has the world's most profitable coker in the UK, which produces the highest quality of petroleum coke). Shuaiba's export pier was rebuilt by China Harbour Engineering Co., under a $61.2m contract awarded in August 1996. It can handle tankers of up to 100,000dwt. |
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