Name of client : Orpic – Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries

Budget : $1.5 billion

Revised budget : $2.1 billion

Facility Type : Refinery

Sector : Oil Refining

Status : Construction

Location : Sohar

Feed : CB&I Lummus B.V.

PMC : CB&I – Chicago Bridge & Iron Company

Main Contractor : Daelim Industrial Company, Petrofac

Background

Oman Refineries and Petrochemicals Company (Orpic) plans to expand the Sohar Refinery in Sohar Industrial Port. The expansion will add around 60,000 barrels per day (bpd) of new capacity to Sohar Refinery’s present processing capacity of around 116,000 bpd of crude and long residue, as well as increasing naphtha capacity to 1.5 million tonnes per year. Crude throughput of the refinery will increase by 70 per cent with increased product yields for diesel (90 per cent), gasoline (37 per cent), Jet Fuel (93 per cent), LPG (91 per cent), Naphtha (175 per cent) and Propylene (44 per cent). Universal Oil Products (UOP) and KBR have jointly carried out the feasibility studies and pilot plant studies

Project status

March 2017: 98 per cent of the EPC works of the project have been completed. The commissioning of the plant has been delayed to second quarter of 2017.

Project scope

The scope of work includes:

• 71,500 barrels per day (bpd) Crude Distillation Unit

• 96,800 bpd Vacuum Distillation Unit

• 66,400 bpd Once-Through Hydrocracker Unit

• 42,400 bpd Solvent De-Asphalting Unit

• Sulphur Recovery Unit

• Sour Water Stripper Units

• Amine Regeneration Unit

• Isomerisation Unit

• Delayed Coker Unit (DCU)

• Bitumen Blowing unit "BBU"

• Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) unit

• Hydrogen generation unit

Project finance

Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) is the client.

Project schedule

Feasibility study Q1-2010

FEED ITB Q3-2010

PMC ITB Q3-2010

FEED Q1-2011

PMC Q1-2011

EPC ITB Q2-2012

Engineering & Procurement Q4-2013

Construction Q2-2014

Completion Q4-2017