By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Jan. 13, 2004 -- Parker Instrumentation, a division of Parker Hannifin Corp., Barnstaple, UK, has been selected to supply valves and compression tube fittings worth more than $250,000 for upgrading the 140,000 b/d Basra refinery in southern Iraq.
Parker expects to provide the components during the first quarter, including more than 1000 new ball valves to be used as isolation mechanisms for the refinery's instrumentation and control network.
South Refining Co. operates the 140,000 b/cd Basra facility.
In addition to repairs now required because of recent damage, all three of Iraq's major refineries were to have been upgraded according to a plan developed during the period of United Nations sanctions, which called for installation of isomerization units with capacities of 20,000 b/d at Baiji and 10,000 b/d each at Basra and Daura.
The plan further envisioned 40,000 b/d of fluid catalytic cracking capacity at Baiji and 30,000 b/d of hydrocracking capacity at Basra (OGJ Online, Sept. 9, 2003).
