By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Mar. 5 -- TotalFinaElf SA has awarded France's Technip-Coflexip a 50 million euro contract for the design and construction of a hydrotreating unit at TotalFinaElf's 109,013 b/cd refinery at Antwerp, Belgium.
Construction completion is scheduled for the end of August 2004. The unit, which will have a capacity of 57,500 b/sd of gasoline, is expected to be ready for start-up on Oct. 20, 2004.
Part of the "Clean Gasoline Project," the unit will hydrotreat gasoline from the FCC unit without lowering the octane rating.
The Clean Gasoline Project will allow the production of gasoline with a sulfur content below 10 ppm so that the Antwerp refinery complies with 2008 European gasoline standards.
Technip-Coflexip's engineering center based in Paris will handle engineering, equipment and materials procurement, works subcontracting, construction supervision, and precommissioning operations.
