Hydrogen plant due Polish refinery

PKN Orlen SA let an engineering, procurement, and construction management contract to Technip for a hydrogen plant at its 376,500 b/cd refinery in Plock, Poland.

Jan. 8, 2007

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Jan. 8 -- PKN Orlen SA let an engineering, procurement, and construction management contract to Technip for a hydrogen plant at its 376,500 b/cd refinery in Plock, Poland.

The €50 million lump-sum contract covers licensing, design, and supply of equipment and materials; construction management and supervision; and start-up services and training.

The hydrogen plant, scheduled to be operational in first quarter 2009, will have a capacity of 5 tonnes/hr. The hydrogen produced will be used in the refinery to produce diesel oil in compliance with the European norms.

Technip also recently received a €67 million contract for construction of a diesel oil hydrodesulfurization unit at the Plock refinery. The unit will produce 260 tonnes/hr of high-purity diesel oil, with a maximum of 10 ppm (wt) of sulfur. It will be one of the largest of its kind, Technip said (OGJ Online, Dec. 4, 2006).