OMV plans turnaround of petchem units at Austrian refining complex
Austria’s OMV AG will shut down the petrochemical portion of its 203,892-b/d integrated refinery and petrochemical complex in Schwechat, Austria, beginning in mid-April for 2 months of routine turnaround activities.
Scheduled to occur every 6 years, the 2017 turnaround at Schwechat will involve a comprehensive, routine safety inspection of petrochemical units to be carried out in cooperation with TUV Austria Holding AG’s Schwechat division, OMV said.
To be executed in parallel with the turnaround at the neighboring Borealis AG subsidiary Borealis Polyolefine GMBH’s nearby petrochemical plant, the turnaround at Schwechat—which supplies monomer feedstock to Borealis’ plastics-manufacturing site—will include maintenance work and safety inspections, as well as a range of unidentified project implementations in various unidentified operational areas.
Alongside coordinated inspections at both the Borealis plant and OMV’s refinery to ensure efficient production planning of the integrated operations, the €110-million turnaround specifically will involve work at four process furnaces, 71 columns, 508 heat exchangers, 698 containers, 4,188 fittings, and 1,485 safety valves, as well as repairs and upgrades to about 12 km of pipelines, OMV said.
Maintenance, repair, upgrading, and inspection activities are scheduled to wrap in mid-June, the firm said.
The Schwechat refinery’s 2017 turnaround follows a 2-month turnaround of fuel production units at the site during April-June 2016 (OGJ Online, Mar. 16, 2016).
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