Project Profile
Value: $3,400 Million
Startup Year: 2016
Refinery: 300,000 bbl/day
Location: Santander
The project will see the expansion of the Barrancabermeja refinery, which will increase the refining capacity from 250,000 b/d to 300,000 b/d, add heavy crude processing capability, and provide a processing configuration to meet the projected 2013 Colombian clean fuels product specifications.
The scope includes the following new units: a crude unit, delayed coker, hydrocracker unit, coker naphtha hydrotreating unit, hydrogen unit, sour water strippers, amine regeneration unit, and sulphur recovery unit, plus associated utilities and offsite units. The project will also involve revamping the diesel hydrotreater, gasoline hydrotreater and dismantling of two existing atmospheric and vacuum distillation units.
Operator:
Ecopetrol
Contractors:
Foster Wheeler: PMC and FEED
Technip: Sulphur reduction unit PMC