Belarus refinery to get hydrogen unit

July 11, 2005
JSC Mozyr Oil Refinery has awarded Foster Wheeler Italiana SPA a contract for basic design of a grassroots hydrogen production unit at its 323,300 b/d refinery in Belarus. Terms of the award were not disclosed.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, July 11 -- JSC Mozyr Oil Refinery has awarded Foster Wheeler Italiana SPA a contract for basic design of a grassroots hydrogen production unit at its 323,300 b/d refinery in Belarus. Terms of the award were not disclosed.

Foster Wheeler also will supply materials for the steam methane reformer and provide technical assistance during construction, commissioning, and start-up.

The unit, scheduled to be in operation by 2007, will produce 25,000 normal cu m/hr of high-purity hydrogen.