By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Apr. 7 -- Hovensa LLC, a 50:50 joint venture of Venezuela's state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA and Amerada Hess Corp. has awarded a lump-sum turnkey contract to Technip for a fluid catalytic cracker gasoline hydrotreating unit to be installed at its 495,000 b/sd refinery at St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. The refinery already operates a 140,000 b/d FCC unit, and a 58,000 b/d coking unit.
The new 50,000 b/sd low-sulfur FCC unit will produce low-sulfur gasoline using ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Co.'s SCANfining process technology. Project completion is scheduled for November 2006.
The contract, to be carried out at Technip's Rome engineering center, covers front-end and detailed engineering, procurement and supply of equipment and materials, construction, precommissioning, commissioning, and start-up assistance.
