Mexico's state-owned petroleum company Petroleos Mexicanos has disclosed the receipt of proposals from companies and consortia competing to win contracts to revamp three of its refineries.
For Pemex's Francisco I. Madero refinery in Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas state, five bids were submitted: Mexico's Bufete Industrial; a consortium of Italy's Snamprogetti SpA, ICA, and U.S. firm Fluor Daniel Inc.; a combine of Japan's Chiyoda Corp. and South Korea's Samsung Engineering Corp.; a group comprised of Sunkyong Engineering Corp., Mexico's Tribasa, and Germany's Siemens AG; and a combine of Mexico's Mec nica de la Pe?a and South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction Ltd. The results of this bidding round are to be announced Feb. 15.
Competing to upgrade Pemex's Antonio Amor refinery at Salamanca, Guanajuato state, are: Sunkyong-Tribasa-Siemens, Mec nica de la Pe?a, ICA-Fluor Daniel, Bufete, Samsung Engineering, and a combine of Spain's Tecnicas Reunidas SA and Duro Felguera. The winning bid will be announced Feb. 16.
Six companies or consortia are participating in the bid to upgrade Pemex's Miguel Hidalgo refinery at Tula, Mexico state: Snamprogetti-ICA-Fluor Daniel, Sunkyong-Tribasa-Siemens, Mec nica de la Pe?a-Hyundai, Samsung, South Korea's LG International, and a combine of Argentina's Techint SA and Japan's Toyo Engineering Corp. The winning bid will be announced on Feb. 19.
The upgrades are part of a long-term Pemex program to boost the company's refineries' capability to process heavy Maya crude by 460,000 b/d, and to increase their yield of unleaded, high-octane gasoline.
The overall program will be completed in 31 months and involves construction of 11 new units at each plant, including a coker, a gas oil hydro- desulfurizer, a butane isomerizing unit, an alkylation plant, a hydrogen plant, and a sulfur plant, among others. All the projects are to be paid for with external financing.
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