Project Profile
Value: US$1,500 million
Location: Sohar Industrial Port, Al Batinah Region
Capacity: 187,700 b/d
Start-up Year: Q4 2015
The project will see the expansion of the refinery, with an increase in capacity from the present 116,400 barrels per day to roughly 187,700 b/d. There will be several major processing units, which will be added to the refinery complex, including a 71,500 b/d Crude Distillation Unit, 96,800 b/d Vacuum Distillation Unit, 66,400 b/pd Once-Through Hydrocracker Unit, 42,400 b/d Solvent De-Asphalting Unit, sulphur recovery unit, sour water stripper units, amine regeneration unit, and isomerisation unit, among other systems. There will also be utility generation and offsite storage facilities.
Operator:
Oman Refineries and Petrochemicals Company (ORPC): Operator with 100% interest
Contractors:
Alstom: Reducing the emissions of the breaking units
CB&I Lummus: FEED contract
Consortium for EPC contract
Petrofac
Daelim Industrial Co Ltd (Daelim)
Foster Wheeler: UOP/Foster Wheeler Solvent Deasphalting (SDA) process technology
Larsen & Toubro Heavy Engineering: Delivered a mammoth Wet Gas Scrubber (WGS)
Tebodin: Engineering services for maintenance and expansion
Universal Oil Products (UOP) LLC (Honeywell): Feasibility study and UOP/Foster Wheeler Solvent Deasphalting (SDA) process technology
Amec Foster Wheeler: Technical services agreement contract for the Mina Al Fahal Refinery and Sohar Refinery, Aromatics and Polypropylene plants, Oman. Amec Foster Wheeler will provide specialist process and technology engineering support, process safety improvement and maintenance programme support for the refineries and chemical plants. It includes an expert helpdesk service to trouble-shoot plant processes, optimise production, reduce energy and utilities costs and improve plant reliability, safety and environmental performance. The contract will be executed using skills from the company’s Reading, UK, hub of expertise along with local skills in Oman.
MAN Diesel & Turbo (MDT): Shutdown engineering contract. MDT\'s contract is to assure the overhaul of key components of the RFCC plant. MDT will have to over the next 10 months manufacture a number of large components for the shutdown project including; air grids, internal domes, and a new regenerator head with a steel weight of 250 metric tonnes. All these components will be shipped to Oman by January 2016.