Williams, Tulsa, said the 75,000 b/d fluid catalytic cracking unit that was down last week at its Memphis, Tenn., refinery due to an electrical short is back up to full capacity. The shutdown reduced throughput by roughly 30% of the facility's 180,000 b/d total refinery capacity as a result of the outage that began May 20.
Methanex Corp., Vancouver, plans to restart its methanol plant in Kitimat, BC, by July 1 after a 1-year shutdown due to poor economics. Methanex will shut down its Medicine Hat facility for 3 months starting July 1 in order to "balance production levels with global customer requirements."
Syncrude Canada Ltd. has awarded Technip SA a lump sum turnkey contract for a single train hydrogen plant at its Mildred Lake facility in Alberta. The unit will produce 200 Mcfd of hydrogen and 900 psig of steam for an integrated 75-Mw condensing steam turbine generator. Startup is scheduled for 2003.
VECO Canada Ltd. has awarded Technip a lump sum contract on behalf of Consumers' Cooperative Refineries Ltd. (CCRL) for a new 40 Mcfd hydrogen plant to be located at CCRL's 52,000 b/d refinery in Regina, Sask. Start-up is slated for fall of 2002. The plan is part of a refinery expansion project that will increase refining capacity to 80,000 b/d from 55,000 b/d.
Holborn Europa Raffinerie has selected Institut Français du Pétrole's proprietary gasoline desulfurization technology for use in its Hamburg refinery. HER will be able to produce gasoline with 10 ppm sulfur.
