Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has let a contract to Fluor Corp. unit ICA Fluor’s industrial engineering-construction joint venture with Empresas ICA SAB de CV to build a delayed coker at the Miguel Hidalgo Refinery in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico.
ICA Flour will provide detailed engineering, procurement and construction services for the coker, which will have a processing capacity of 86,000-b/d, Fluor said.
Mechanical completion of the project is scheduled for second-quarter 2018.
The $1.3-billion contract is the first package to be converted to the EPC stage under the open book established in the $95-million contract ICA Fluor previously was awarded for the first phase of the Tula refinery’s residue recovery project, which aims to boost the plant’s yield of higher value distillates through reprocessing of such products as gas oil (diesel) (OGJ Online, Sept. 25, 2013).
This latest contract follows a series of contracts Pemex has let as part of the diesel phase of its recently announced fuel quality project, which involves a $2.8-billion investment into increasing ultralow-sulfur diesel production at five of Mexico’s refineries, including the Tula plant (OGJ Online, Sept. 15, 2014).
