By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Oct. 13 -- The BOC Group PLC, Murray Hill, NJ, plans to build a $100-million hydrogen and utilities complex to supply as much as120 MMscfd of hydrogen to BP PLC and Sunoco Inc. oil refineries in Toledo, Ohio and other potential customers in the area.
The facility will be located at the Sunoco refinery, which also will receive steam from the complex.
LindeBOC Process Plants, Tulsa, will provide engineering and construction services. Construction is scheduled to start next month and to complete in fourth quarter 2005.
The complex will enable the refineries to meet requirements for ultra-low sulfur gasoline and diesel fuels meeting the US Environmental Protection Agency's Tier 2 clean fuels regulation.