Project Profile
Value: US$5,000 million
Location: Karbala Province, about 120 kilometers south of Baghdad, Iraq
Capacity: 140,000 bbl/day
Start-up Year:2020
Iraq has taken the decision to build a 140,000 bpd grassroots refinery in the Karbala Province, about 120 kilometers south of Baghdad. The EPC contract will cover process units, tank farm, off-sites, utilities, pipelines, instrumentation, control and communications systems. There are plans for a second 200-300,000 bpd refinery on a BOO or BOT basis, which will remain on hold in the short term due to general security and political instability. The grassroots refinery will use industry-leading refining processes from Honeywell UOP and automation controls from Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) to allow Iraq\'s State Company of Oil Projects\' (SCOP) Karbala refinery to maximize production of fuel and other products that will help offset the more than 350,000 barrels per day of refined products the country currently imports. These technologies will also help meet growing domestic demand with products meeting international standards equivalent to Euro V fuel standards. Startup of the 140,000 barrel-per-day refinery is expected in 2020.
Operators:
State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP)
Iraq Oil Ministry
Contractors:
Consortium of four companies carrying out engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract:
Hyundai Heavy Industries
Three of South Korean companies not mentioned
Honeywell: Contract to provide industry-leading process technology and advanced automation controls. Honeywell technologies licensed for the Karbala refinery include:
- The UOP Penex™ process to upgrade light naphtha feedstock to produce isomerate, a cleaner gasoline blend-stock that does not contain benzene, aromatics or olefins.
- The UOP fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) process to convert heavy feedstocks recovered from other refinery operations into high-octane gasoline.
- The UOP CCR Platforming™ process to convert low-quality naphtha to high-octane blending components for gasoline.
- The UOP Unionfining™ process to improve the quality of distillate boiling-range feedstocks to help meet tougher product specifications.
- The UOP Chlorsorb™ process to help meet stringent waste gas specifications.
- The Experion® Process Knowledge System (PKS), the heart of the Integrated Control and Safety Systems (ICSS), which unifies people with process, business requirements and asset management by enabling integration of all process control and safety systems and automation software under a single architecture.
- Safety Manager, which integrates process safety data, applications, system diagnostics and critical control strategies, and executes defined safety applications in a fully redundant architecture.
- Fire and gas safety systems, which include SIL3 certified safety systems connected to fire detectors, fire alarm panels, fire suppression systems, gas detectors, sounders and beacons to minimize the impact of any abnormal situations.
- UniSim® training simulators, which enable industrial sites better plan, deploy and manage a structured program for operator competency.
Saipem: Processing and technical work
State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP): FEED contract
Technip: FEED and PMC contract
Sub-contractors:
Nexans: Low voltage (LV) cables for the Karbala Refinery Project. The contract was awarded by HDGSK, a Joint Venture of four major Korean engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies: Hyundai Engineering & Construction and Hyundai Engineering; GS Engineering & Construction; and SK Engineering & Construction. As part of the contract, Nexans will manufacture and supply 3,500km of LV cables for Karbala Refinery Project. Nexans\' LV cable system will be equipped with PVC hydrocarbon resistance which features high performance.