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Minning Projects
Mill Circuit SAG Mill -> 2 X Ball Mills -> Cyclone Separator- Rotating Screens -> Slurry The return line (Oversize) from Separate comes back to Ball Mills. Ball Mill Rubber liners Grates Bolt Map – Check the bolts before going inside ball mill Broken bolt Replace bolts Go inside Ball mills got 1 motor for inching
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Rotary Screens The slurry goes to flotation circuit (70 tanks) add chemicals, (chemical circuits) Blower plant is to air supply 3 X Blowers (Blower circuit) IA (Instrument Air) Circuit
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Reliability Issues with Flotation Cells Agitator bearing condition monitoring – Drive End bearing and non-drive end bearing The blowing Circuit in the plant is a critical equipment
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Reliability Report Current condition Vibration condition
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Thickener The overflow of the Thickner goes to process water dam Zn product tank X 3 Ld product tank X 2 Ld is goes to Lead Dam. Pump X 3 and Slurry pumped, to Filter Press X 4 Klinker is Diesel fired (80m – 90m) long
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Thickener Reliability Issues Rake – Unbalance -> Damaged floor Rake trip -> lift the rack and re-start Rake balance during the SD using theodalight Tailing Pump (Redundant System) Tailing dam – Clay Lining / Geofabrication lining Reliability Planning Lube schedule Lube sampling (Oil, Grease) Lube analysis Spare part...
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Integrating the project schedules The rescue team had to create an integrated critical path schedule for completion of the project to integrate separate schedules for each of the three main contractors plus the detailed commissioning schedule and replace a separate summary schedule representing the project for use by t...
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Concentrate tank upgrade The upgrade involved the design and construction of 2 large, and 2 smaller steel tanks. The large tanks are over 13m in height and have a storage capacity of over 120,000 litres of concentrate. This additional storage capacity will enable additional throughput of ore to China and increases the...
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Weather challenges Challenges facing the project team at Oyu Tolgoi included operating at 3,800 feet, extreme weather, and limited access to essential utilities and services. The Gobi Desert presented a brutally harsh environment, with temperatures ranging from -40 C to +45 C. The country is landlocked, with limited ac...
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PROMINENT HILL CHF PLANT UPGRADE, PROMINENT HILL MINE, SA Under Contract to Outotec, this project was for the fabrication, surface treatment and delivery to site of various items required to complete the CHF Plant upgrade, including two tanks and a cyclone support structure.
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PASTE BACKFILL PLANT – XSTRATA ZINCE MINE MT ISA Under contract to Outotec, this project was for the fabrication, delivery and construction of a Paste Backfill Plant at the Lady Loretta Zinc Mine in Mt Isa. The project included: fabrication, delivery to site, structural, mechanical, and piping installation onsite for X...
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SAG Mill commissioning The milling circuit is predominantly refurbished and ready for operation with the new 3,000-tonne-per-day Semi-Autogenous-Grinding (SAG) mill installed and aligned (Figure 1). The two Ball Mills have been refurbished and will be available for commissioning following upcoming replacement of upgrad...
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SAG Mill Control Modern plant control systems (PCS) whether Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) or Distributed Control Systems (DCS), are extremely powerful process control and automation engines. In the mining industry these systems are used extensively for basic control functions, SAG mill control fundamentally mean...
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Mill Drives and Brakes Muscle Up Recent years have seen a trend toward fewer comminution machines per process line, particularly as grinding mills have increased considerably in size. Today, autogenous grinding (AG) mills as large as 40-ft in diameter with motor power in excess of 20 MW are being ordered and installed ...
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Expert Control and Supervision FLSmidth’s ECS/ProcessExpert control and supervision system provides advanced process control and optimization for minerals plants, including grinding circuits, by analyzing a wide range of signals and actuating automatic adjustments to manage the equipment and process performance. ECS/Pr...
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Lihir gold mine’ Projects include upgrading the electrical and control systems and replacing the neutralisation cyanidation adsorption (NCA) circuit. “The expansion project of increasing the flotation capacity is proceeding on schedule to a July 2013 delivery.”
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Belt Drive Issues • Tension and alignment are shutdown jobs > at a minimum needs to be stopped and isolated. • Symptoms -> Noises coming from belt area, Drive rack or bridge vibration / wobble ,Motor noises, Heat
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Level Indicator • Typical Issues -> Shaft sticking, Ball sinking (or floating on froth), Not set-up properly, Reading incorrectly, Not calibrated, Not spanned correctly, Need to check regularly • Is level control OK? • Loops tuned, Valve positioners working?, Perhaps it’s the level indicator?
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Mt Isa Mine Copper Concentrator The aim of the flotation capacity upgrade project was to improve copper plant recovery by approximately 2% through major brown fields work completed in two stages. This work included the installation of additional flotation equipment, pumps and pump boxes, lifting facilities, electrical ...
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Carbon in leach Plant Double-impeller Leach Tank For Gold Cyinadation Process The Telfer concentrator, located in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia, consists of a dual train gold/copper operation processing ore from one underground and, currently, two open pit mines with differing mineralogy. The fl otation c...
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Copper Upgrade Since Telfer was re-opened, with a new concentrator, in 2004, the processing plant has struggled with poor copper concentrate grades, partially due to the excessive entrainment of non-sulfide gangue minerals in the copper flotation circuit. The equipment was kept to one area for ease of maintenance and a...
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pumps located on ground level for ease of maintenance. The additional cost of elevating the cells was offset by lower operating and maintenance costs than if tailings and concentrate pumps and hoppers had been required. The cells have eight downcomers each, and are each driven by a 75 kW Warman 10/8 pump with a recircu...
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Improving gold extraction Burns et al (2012) showed that the optimal approach to improving CIL performance (in terms of both improving recovery and reducing operating cost) was to install a regrind mill on the current CIL feed stream, and then remove liberated gold and copper particles by fl otation (pyrite recleaning)...
Plant Integrity
Asset Integrity can be defined as the ability of an asset to perform its required function effectively and efficiently whilst protecting health, safety and the environment. Asset Integrity Management is the means of ensuring that the people, systems, processes and resources that deliver integrity are in place, in use a...
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In this context integrity is defined as the prevention of the loss of containment of a fluid or energy from the facilities. The integrity management process covers the Equipment containing the fluid Structures that support the equipment Other systems that prevent, detect, control or mitigate, against a major acciden...
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A loss of integrity (containment) could have an adverse impact on the safety of personnel, on the safety of the asset / facilities, on the environment or on production and revenue.
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The aim of the asset integrity management process is to provide a framework for the following: ? Compliance with company standards, regulatory and legislative requirements ? Assurance of technical integrity by the application of risk based or risk informed engineering principles and techniques ? Delivery of the require...
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There are a number of processes and activities, which are carried out by various bodies with the aim of ensuring that the overall integrity of the asset is maintained
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Design The following is not an exhaustive list but the items in it should be considered during the design phase: ? Subsea Integrity Management Strategy (SIMS) ? Pipeline Integrity Management System (PIMS) ? Major Accident Prevention Document (MAPD) ? Emergency Response Procedures (ERP) ? Inspection, Maintenance and Rep...
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Operate The following should be considered as fundamental to safe and efficient operations ? Commissioning requirement and report ? Update all the Integrity Documents (Design Phase) ? Risk Based Inspection/Maintenance analysis (RBI) ? Operation procedures ? Life extension studies (If required) ? Remaining life analysis...
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Maintain When looking at developing optimum preventive and predictive maintenance programs there are a number of building blocks that need to be considered. These include: Knowledge of failure aspects Failure modes and their characteristics Failure consequences Failure mechanisms Failure causes Age-reliability characte...
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Many industries are implementing ISO 55000 (formerly known as PAS 55) - Specification for the Optimized Management of Physical Assets - as a method to assess their Management Systems and compare them with other leaders in their industry. ISO 55000 defines an Asset Management System as incorporating the following requir...
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Asset Integrity Management System Review The following topics would be covered when auditing or reviewing a company’s Asset Integrity Management system. Not all subjects would be applicable in every case. The following list is not meant to be exhaustive but merely a guide to areas of interest.
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COMPANY ASSET INTEGRITY POLICY The provision of an Asset Integrity Management System and its financing Definition of management responsibility & commitment throughout the company for Asset Integrity Ownership and understanding of the system’s arrangements with regard to employee communication, consultation and involvem...
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PERSONNEL, COMPETENCY & TRAINING Definitive job profiles Recruitment & selection of appropriately qualified and suitable staff Development of criteria that defines the “Person Profile” Competence Assessment Training and plans for new & existing facilities Certification e.g. Survival Personal & Career Development HSE Aw...
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OPERATIONS Operating Plant & equipment examinations, inspection & test management of the operating envelope. PFDs and P&IDS Original design flow rates (Oil, Water, Gas) Current flow rate (Oil, Water, Gas) A copy of Process simulation, Process monitoring & data capture e.g. production reporting Operating Procedures for,...
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ASSET INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT Communication between onshore support staff and offshore inspection and maintenance technicians Competence assurance of inspection technicians and their supervisors Documented management system, including Written Schemes of Examination (WSoE) Identification of Safety Critical Elements (SCE) C...
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MAINTENANCE Competence assurance of maintenance technicians and their supervisors Interface with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) including register of assets Maintenance plans and schedules for equipment and execution Maintenance of safety critical elements Measuring the quality of maintenance work K...
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MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE (MOC) Engineering changes, including maintenance, inspection & testing Process changes – including changes in flow stream components Changes to procedures Changes to software (but not to standard office based IT systems) Organizational changes Formal documentation of these processes
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INTERFACE MANAGEMENT Contracts & Procurement – the process, authority levels and execution The provision of 3rd party services, their control, utilization and deliverables Facilities interfaces where they are an integral part of the Operation e.g. pipelines Appointment of Company Designated Site Representatives for eve...
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WELL ENGINEERING Compliance with relevant legislative environment Full Well Life Cycle involvement Clear, accountable leadership Clearly defined roles and responsibilities Documented Management system, including Written Schemes of Examination (WSoE) Interface with related Asset Integrity Management systems eg Pressure ...
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Pipeline System means: Pipework (including associated risers), valves, pressure vessels e.g. pig traps, control & measurement systems, cathodic protection, support structures, inspection provision, connections and injection points included in the pressure containing envelope peculiar to a pipeline system as distinct fr...
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Practice Before embarking on any course of action, the present status needs to be determined. That involves asking questions of the heads of inspection / maintenance departments, inspection contractors and Offshore Installation Managers (OIM)s. The most fundamental ones are: What are the biggest worries / fears you hav...
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Asset Integrity Management (AIMS) Asset Integrity Management System (AIMS) is the systematic implementation of activities such as inspection, tests and maintenance task necessary to ensure that important equipment will be suitable for intended application throughout its service life
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AIMS Framework As a management process, AIMS process shall include policy development; organizing; planning and implementation; measuring performance; and audit and review Asset Integrity Toolkit is a guideline to develop AIMS for offshore production facilities. It was published in 2006, developed by a joint industry p...
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Asset Integrity Toolkit defines 32 elements of AIMS into 6 six groups as follows: 1. Assurance and Verification; Facility Owner shall define safety critical element (SCE) within the facility. SCE is a term in Safety Case (UK Offshore Installation Safety Regulations SI 2005 No 3117) to refer to: - Parts of an installati...
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2. Assessment/Control and Monitoring The process of assessment/control and monitoring should include the following key elements: - Rigorous risk assessment of potential major hazards and threats from plant equipment and operations to the personnel, the environment, and the asset; - Identification necessary mitigation a...
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3. Competence Personnel with the required levels of competence should be supported by commitment of senior management. Duty holders should develop competence system that should: be able to verifiable by audit of training, recruitment process, formal assessment, provides demonstrable capability within their pre-defined ...
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4. Planning AIMS should be comprehensively planned for successful implementation. The planning and implementation of an Integrity Management System should includes: - Processes definition required to manage the integrity of asset; - Resources and Responsibility Allocation; - Identification performance against the plan;...
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6. Quality and Audit Quality management and audit should be integrated and aligned in every process embedded in every aspects of asset integrity management through out six lifecycle stages. Quality and audit system as to senior management framework to guide organization toward performance improvement can encompass the ...
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AIMS related to OE Correlation AIMS with Corporate Process called Operational Excellence Management System (OEMS) start from quote of Element 5, Reliability Expectations 5.1 – 5.7, which states: Organizations are expected to “Operate and maintain wells and facilities to ensure asset integrity and prevent incidents.”
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AIMS related to SERIP In PT. CPI, AIMS is a sub process of another bigger Chevron’s Process called Surface Equipment Reliability and Integrity Process (SERIP). AIMS is covered in Stages 3, 4 and 5. Until now, most Business Units are in SERIP stage 1 or 2.
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References - API RP 2A: Recommended Practice for Planning, Designing and Constructing Fixed Offshore Platforms - API RP 75: Recommended Practice for Development of a Safety and Environmental Management Program (SEMP) for Offshore Operations and Facilities - API 510: Pressure Vessel Inspection Code-lnspection, Repair, A...
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SERIP Stage 3 - AIM Phase 1 (2011-2013) Baseline procedures are applicable to the entire Asset Integrity Management System (AIMS). Specific procedures applicable to fixed equipment and critical structures. Focus on equipment that prevents Health, Safety, Environment, or Asset consequences of 1 or 2 from being realized....
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Located some 240 kilometers west of Abu Dhabi City, the Ruwais Industrial Complex was developed as a major contributor to the national economy and represents a series of multi-million dollar investments. The Ruwais story began in the 1970s, when plans were laid to transform a remote desert site into a self-contained in...
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These are produced by the following primary and secondary processing units: Crude oil Distillation (120,000 bpd): After desalting, crude oil is distilled to produce full-range naphtha, kerosene, light gas oil, heavy gas oil and straight run residue, which are further processed in downstream units.
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Naphtha Hydrodesulphurization (34,350 bpd): The full-range naphtha from the crude oil unit and heavy naphtha from the Hydro cracker unit is hydro treated to remove the Sulphur compounds and then LPG is stripped from whole naphtha. After dehydration, the raw LPG is sent to the GASCO-NGL plant for further processing whil...
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Atalytic Reformer (19,150 bpd): The heavy naphtha is processed to improve its anti-knock properties by using a bimetallic platinum-based catalyst. The Reformate obtained is used as the main blend component for gasoline production. The hydrogen-rich gas is used in the reaction sections of the hydrotreaters and the remai...
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Kerosene Hydrotreater (20,780 bpd): The unit improves the burning quality of kerosene by desulphurization and saturation of aromatics required to meet international specifications for jet fuel.
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Gas Oil Hydrodesulphurization (21,850 bpsd): The unit removes Sulphur compounds in the heavy gas oil from the crude oil unit using a cobalt/molybdenum oxide-based catalyst. The hydrotreated heavy gas oil is used as a blending component to produce different grades of gas oil.
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Vacuum Unit (46,000 bpd): The Vacuum Unit processes atmospheric residue from the crude oil unit to produce heavy vacuum gas oil as feedstock for the Unibon unit. Ruwais residue is supplemented by residue from Abu Dhabi Refinery.
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Unibon Unit/Hydro cracker (27,000 bpd): The Unibon Unit converts the heavy vacuum gas oil feed into lighter products in the reactor section by passing the feed, plus hydrogen, over catalysts under high temperature and pressure. The products from this reaction are then separated in the fractionation section to yield hig...
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Hydrogen Plant (60,000 Nm3/hr): The Hydrogen Unit converts natural gas and steam into hydrogen with the aid of catalysts. Propane can also be used as an alternative feed.
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Two Sulphur Recovery Plants (44/49 tons per day): These units recover sulphur from hydrogen sulphide-rich gas produced in the Hydrodesulphurization and Unibon units by converting it into elemental sulphur through a thermal and catalytic reaction. The liquid sulphur is then sent to the Sulphur Handling Terminal for gran...
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Two Condensate Splitters (2x140,000 bpd): Each splitter is designed to process condensate from the On-shore Gas Development and Asab Gas Development fields. The splitters fractionate the condensate into unstabilized light naphtha, medium naphtha, heavy naphtha, kerosene, light gas oil (LGO), heavy gas oil (HGO), and at...
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Two Naphtha Stabilizers (2x27,500 bpd): Each Stabilizer is designed to process 27,500 bpd of unstabilized light naphtha from the condensate splitters. LPG after treatment is sent to GASCO while stabilized light naphtha is routed to storage and blending.
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Two Kerosene Sweetening Units (2x52,000 bpd): Kerosene produced in the Condensate Distillation Units contains mercaptans and naphthenic acids. The Merichem Sweetening units reduce the mercaptans by converting them into disulphide. The sweetened kerosene from each unit is routed to storage and blending.
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Refinery Utilities The refinery generates all the utilities, which are required by the process units. Equipment and systems include steam boilers, seawater cooling systems, a closed-loop fresh water cooling system, instrument and plant air, fuel oil and fuel gas systems
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Tank Farm & Offsites The Refinery has 91 tanks with a total nominal storage capacity of over three million cubic meters. Of these 12 are feedstock tanks, 34 are for intermediate products and 45 for finished products. Off sites include ballast reception facilities, CPI separator system, four flares, blending and shippin...
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Marine Terminal The Refinery's Marine Terminal provides for the loading and unloading of tankers ranging from 2,000 to 330,000 dwt. It has four cabotage berths to accommodate tankers from 2,000 to 7,000 dwt, and three large tanker berths for vessels from 7,000 to 330,000 dwt.
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Sulphur Handling & Granulation Plant The Sulphur Handling and Granulation Plant has nine granulators with a total capacity of 7,650 tons per day and covered storage for 145,000 tons of granulated product. Multiple bays for receiving liquid Sulphur trucks from the on-shore gas processing facilities and a jetty to handle...
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General Utilities Plant Ruwais Refinery Division operates the GUP to provide reliable power and water not only for its needs but the industrial area and community at large. Power is generated by seven gas turbines and two steam turbines with an installed capacity of over 650 MW. Water production capacity is over 60,000...
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Abu Dhabi Gas Industries (GASCO) has awarded the contract for engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPC) works for its Ruwais 3rd NGL Train Project -- Ruwais Plant to Snamprogetti, Italy at $ 1.427 bn.
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Milan, Italy, and is scheduled for completion within 38 months. The Ruwais 3rd NGL Train project is a mega project and is the second of the EPC Packages within the overall scheme of OGD-III & AGD-II Project launched by ADNOC. The project is designed to process and fractionate 24,400 tpd of raw Natural Gas Liquids (NGL...
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Ruwais’ third NGL train facility will be located adjacent to the existing NGL Trains at Ruwais. The entire project facility shall comprise of process train, product storage tanks, jetty with two berths and utilities. While the products-propane, butane and pentane plus would be exported, ethane shall be transported to...
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
The intent of this investment which is in the Define Stage is to increase the amount of heavy Canadian crude that the refinery can process by upgrading the metallurgy in the Crude, Vacuum and Coker units, improve unit reliability and availability, expanding the Coker capacity for processing more heavy crude and, improv...
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
Circa $700m relief system risk mitigation program implemented following the 2005 Texas City “Isom Incident”. The program involved the removal of 12 atmospheric blow down stacks in the relief system, routing of over 400 relief valves from the blow down stacks to revamped or new relief system headers and 3 new flares, ri...
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
•Circa $500m TCACP program to replace the Foxboro DCS system on units and upgrade / add Safety Instruction to address critical hazards to current industry / BP standards. • Circa $130m Asset Integrity Program (AIP) to ensure that process safety risks as they hazards associated with equipment and instrumentation, relief...
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INEOS Olefins and Polymers USA is one of the largest integrated producers of polyolefins in North America. From its manufacturing locations at Chocolate Bayou, Battle Ground and Texas City, Texas, and Carson, California, it is a merchant marketer of butadiene, ethylene, polypropylene, styrene monomer, and high-density ...
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
Texas City is BP’s largest refinery worldwide, the most complex refinery in the world based on conversion and the third largest refinery in the United States, with a capacity of about 460,000 barrels per day. The facility is capable of producing about 10 million gallons per day of premium and unleaded regular gasoline ...
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
The Grangemouth refinery and petrochemicals facility is BP’s 2nd largest production centre. It is a deeply integrated site exploiting synergies between the refinery and the petrochemicals plants. . Refinery Availability Task Force 2001 • As part of team charged with finding ways to close the $500MM gap in availabilit...
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
Within BP’s North American head quarters in Cleveland, three commercial regions were established to optimize the commercial performance of the assets and trading within those regions. The South East Region included the Alliance Refinery in Belle Chase LA, retail stations along the SE, trading activities, product and cr...
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
The Ferndale Refinery is located North of Bellingham Washington and processes around 80,000 barrels per day of crude oil from Alaska topped-off by foreign condensate. The refinery lacked coking capacity and had old cracking technology thereby producing a high percentage of fuel oil for the West Coast Market (had circa ...
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
At the beginning of 2009 a contract between EagleBurgmann-Middle East and a major Middle Eastern oil refining company was signed in order to upgrade recycled gas compressor oil bushing seals to EagleBurgmann gas seals in the IsoMax unit. Due to serious concerns of repeated oil seal problems, the customer decided to up...
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Minnesota Refinery. Ambitech provided concurrent front-end engineering and prepared detailed construction drawings for each of these grass roots units for a refinery in the upper Midwest. The hydrogen recovery unit consisted of various condensers, vessels and a cold box. The clarified oil fractionation unit was designe...
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
Utah Refinery. Performed fast-track detailed design and engineering to install platinum reformingtechnology and process unit. Revamp consisted of replacing 3 side-by-side reformer reactors with a three-reactor stack, 100 pph Sequential Catalyst Regeneration System, replacement of reformer direct fired heaters, and all ...
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
Ohio Refinery. Ambitech provided front end engineering and detailed design for a refinery that increased the yield of its FCC Unit by installing a new reactor, improved feed nozzles, a new raw oil feed pump, and accomplished several pipe modifications.
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
India Refinery. Ambitech provided overall critical piping layout, piping and equipment stress/flexibility analysis and detailed mechanical design for the new Reactor and Regenerator vessels, Catalyst Chamber, all interconnecting catalyst standpipes, reactor riser and the direct fired heaters.
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
Texas Refinery. This project included the revamp of two existing distillate hydrotreating units to convert them to licensed GDU’s, and the revamp of the FCC Unit’s Gas Concentration Section, together with their related offsite facilities. In addition to the work in the existing units, three new grass root areas were in...
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
Illinois Refinery. (Major Midwest Refinery) The objective of this project was to meet new on-road diesel specifications. The project scope included the installation of two new heavy wall reactors in the existing CHD Unit, compressor rebuilds, including single stage to multi-stage conversion, and the addition of inter-c...
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
Oklahoma Refinery. Revamp and upgrade of an existing hydrocracking unit to produce ultra-low sulfur diesel as well as hydrocracked naphtha. Work involved replacement of the existing reactor and replacement and/or upgrades to associated heaters, pumps, piping and utilities (steam, cooling water, electrical and flare sys...
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
Illinois Gas Processing Plant.Ambitech was awarded the engineering, procurement, fabrication and installation of a Butane Isomerization Unit, which addressed the following client needs:- To debottleneck the butane processing from 11,500 BPD to 14,000 BPD. - To license available technology in the market for Butamer Pr...
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
California Gas Processing Plant. Ambitech was awarded the engineering, procurement, inspection and construction coordination of a Butamer Project. Our scope included detailed design, process simulations, specifications, procurement, construction coordination and startup assistance. The project included 32 heat exchange...
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
Illinois Refinery.Conversion from MEA to MDEA to increase unit capacity.Sized full stream amine filters, coalescers and carbon adsorber. Researched heat stable salt removal utilizing and ion exchange system.
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
Illinois Refinery. Ambitech completed the Project Design Basis development for the Needle Coker Initial Conversion project. This involved the revision of feed stock to the Needle Coker Complex from Decant Oil to Vacuum Tower Bottoms (VTB). The various flow streams through the Fractionator were evaluated for the flow ra...
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
Illinois Refinery. The purpose of the upgrade project was to improve the Crude and Coker Units operability and reliability, and increase unit throughput by maximizing unit stream days. The upgrade had to be accomplished within the restraints of the existing major equipment. The project included the installation of a ne...
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
Utah Refinery, Design of six modular units to process tail gas from a Claus-type sulfur recovery unit. Major equipment included Heat-Up Blower, Preheater, Reactor Cooler, Quench Water Trim Cooler, Lean/Rich Amine Exchanger, Amine Trim Cooler, Reboiler, Quench Water Filter, Amine Full Flow Filter, Lean Amine Carbon Filt...
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Illinois Refinery.Ambitech provided Process Design, Piping Design and HAZOP for an optimized absorber performance through piping modifications and a reconfiguration of the heat exchangers. Our engineers updated both the P&ID’s and PFD’s and issued revised piping plan drawings and mechanical specifications.
Plant Reliability Improvement Projects
Fiber-optic coating • (Confidential Client and Location) Two-level production area with adequate ventilation to allow electrical classification of Class 1, Group D, Division 2. Included clean room, labs, employee facilities, and warehousing. Detailed design of 480V service entrance to various MCCs and panel boards. De...
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Illinois Chemical Plant. The purpose of this project was to add a new production building and auxiliary facilities for a Specialty Materials Plant. This was a building to house a proprietary process with numerous processing, packaging, truck unloading and loading bays for the production of HFE and related products. It ...