By the OGJ Online Staff
HOUSTON, Jan. 17 -- State-owned Turkmen oil and gas company Turkmenneftegas has awarded Technip-Coflexip Group a 130 million-euro contract for the design and construction of a diesel hydrotreating plant at its 116,477 b/d refinery at Turkmenbashi.
The contract will become effective as soon as financing is arranged, said Technip-Coflexip. The work should be completed 33 months after that.
The lump-sum, turnkey contract calls for a plant that will produce 1.5 million tons/year of hydrotreated diesel with less than 10 ppm of sulfur and 20 tons/day of sulfur as by-product.
It will include a hydrotreating unit, a sulfur recovery unit based on Technip-Coflexip's proprietary technology, and associated utilities, storage tanks, and control systems.
Technip-Coflexip's engineering center in Dusseldorf, Germany, will conduct engineering, procurement, construction, and start-up of the plant.
Previously, the engineering company had participated in the expansion and upgrade of the Turkmenbashi refinery, including design and construction of a 1.8 million ton/year catalytic cracker and a lube oil plant.
