Name of client  : Takreer - Abu Dhabi Oil     Refining Company
Budget  : $10 billion
Facility type  : Refinery
Sector  : Refining
Status  : EPC ITB
Location   : Abu Dhabi
Project start   : Q4-2013
Feed   : Bechtel Corporation

Background

Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company (Takreer) has announced plans to carry out modifications to process heavier offshore crude oil at Ruwais. Murban crude, which is used for feeding the new facilities, will be replaced by offshore crude from Upper Zakum fields and will be transferred by subsea pipeline to onshore. The project will modify RRE and CBDC Facilities to process 420,000 bpsd of Offshore Crude from Upper Zakum instead of Murban Crude.

Project status

September 2015: Amec Foster Wheeler, Jacobs Engineering, Technip and Worley Parsons are currently bidding for the PMC contract.

Project scope

Feed key areas of focus include:
• Crude assay characterisation;
• Revamp process simulations; and
• Associated systems and processes.
The scope of work involves:
Additional units implementation, including:
• Hydrogen Manufacturing Units;
• Saturated Gas Plant;
• Atmospheric Residue De-Sulphurisation Unit (ARDS);
• Sour Water Stripper (SWS);
• Amine Regeneration Unit (ARU);
• Sulphur Recovery Units (SRU); and
• Tail Gas Treating Unit (TGTU).
Modified units, including:
• Crude Distillation Unit (CDU);
• Saturated Gas Plant and Saturated LPG Splitter;
• LGO Diesel Hydro-treating Unit under UOP Licence;
• HGO/LCO Mild Hydro-treating Unit under UOP License; and
• Sea Water System.

Project finance

The project is an EPC Lump Sum Turn Key (LSTK) Project. 

Project schedule

FEED  Q4-2013
EPC ITB Q2-2015
Completion Q1-2020