Project Profile
Value: US$365 million
Location: head of the Whangarei Harbour, near Whangarei, Northland on the North east coast, New Zealand
Capacity Expansion: 3 million bbl/year
Area: unknown
Start-up Year: December 2015
New Zealand Refining Co. Ltd. (NZRC) has planned an expansion of its 107,000-b/d Marsden Point refinery at Northland on the North Island’s east coast. Construction associated with the US$365 million (NZ) Te Mahi Hou (TMH) expansion project at Marsden Point—New Zealand’s only refinery—continues to progress as planned. Engineering design for the project has been completed, and reviews conducted in December 2013 confirm the project is on time and budget for targeted commissioning in December 2015. Fabrication and delivery of key units to the refinery also are well advanced. In addition to the pouring of the concrete foundation in November 2013, a new reactor, compressors, and furnace already have been delivered to the refinery.
The TMH project, approved in February 2012 and initially named the Continuous Catalyst Regeneration Platformer project, is designed to increase high-quality fuel production by replacing the refinery’s semiregeneration platformer and enabling it to process increased volumes of a wider range of crudes more effectively and efficiently. The company also said work is under way to improve yields from the refinery’s hydrocracker, which is scheduled for a maintenance shutdown beginning Mar. 14. NZRC expects the expansion will increase the refinery’s production output by 3 million bbl/year.
A new company has been set up to carry out much of the contracting work at Marsden Pt Oil Refinery after Refining NZ changed the way it uses contractors at the country\'s only oil refinery. The change sees four firms - McKay Electrical, Culham Engineering, Industrial Site Services and United Civil Construction - set up a new company, Maintenir Ltd, to take on the contracting work.
Operators:
New Zealand Refining Co. Ltd. (NZRC): Operator with 100% interest
Contractors:
WorleyParsons Ltd: EPCM services
Maintenir Ltd Joint venture for FEED and EPC:
McKay Electrical
Culham Engineering
Industrial Site Services
United Civil Construction
BOC New Zealand Ltd. (subsidiary of Linde Group): Contract to build a plant aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from operations at its 107,000-b/d Marsden Point refinery at Northland on the North Island’s east coast