NIS lets contracts for unit at Serbian refinery

March 16, 2015
Serbia’s JSC Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) has let contracts to CB&I, Houston, for technology licensing and front-end engineering design for a delayed coking unit at its 4.8 million-tonne/year refinery at Pancevo.

Serbia’s JSC Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) has let contracts to CB&I, Houston, for technology licensing and front-end engineering design for a delayed coking unit at its 4.8 million-tonne/year refinery at Pancevo.

CB&I’s scope of work on the project also will include an extensive process planning study designed to evaluate how best to integrate the delayed coker with the refinery’s existing fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) and hydrocracker, CB&I said.

The refinery’s existing FCC and hydrocracker employ technology previously licensed respectively by CB&I and Chevron Lummus Global, a CB&I-Chevron joint venture, the service provider said.

A value of the contract was not disclosed.

In September 2014, NIS completed a $5.5 million planned modernization overhaul of the Pancevo refinery, which involved the renovation of all refining processes at the plant as well as replacement and inspection of refinery equipment (OGJ Online, Aug. 25, 2014).

The company most recently completed a modernization of Pancevo’s FCC complex in August 2013 to enhance production of high-quality gasoline, which was preceded by the November 2012-commissioning of a new hydrocracking and hydrotreating complex at the refinery to enable increased output of Euro 5-standard fuels.

In 2009, NIS awarded a contract valued at more than $70 million to CB&I to provide detailed engineering, procurement services, construction management, and commissioning for the Pancevo refinery’s hydrocracking-hydrotreating complex, including all associated support, auxiliary, and offsite systems, according to an Oct. 15, 2009, release from CB&I.

NIS is jointly owned by JSC Gazprom Neft, 56.15%; the Republic of Serbia, 29.87%; as well as current and former employees, citizens, and other minor shareholders, 13.98%.