PEMEX Awards ICA Fluor Low-Sulfur Gasoline Projects Worth $622M
24 March 2010
Mexico’s state oil company, PEMEX Refining, has awarded ICA Fluor engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for two low-sulfur gasoline projects in Mexico valued at $622 million as part of its clean fuels program. Fluor will book its $311 million portion of the award in the first quarter of 2010.
ICA Fluor is responsible for the EPC, testing and start-up that includes the installation of the catalytic gasoline desulfurization plants, the amine regeneration units, offsites, utilities and integration for PEMEX’s existing Gral. Lazaro Cárdenas del Río Refinery in Minatitlan, Veracruz, and the Antonio Dovali Jaime Refinery located in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca.
Both the Minatitlan and Salina Cruz refinery projects each include 25,000 barrel-per-day catalytic distillation trains, the associated amine regeneration units, flare and all ancillary facilities. The work is scheduled to be completed in mid-2013.
PEMEX’s clean fuels program is part of the comprehensive development and modernization of PEMEX Refining designed to increase Mexico’s production of ultra low-sulfur gasoline in accordance with the applicable environmental standards.
ICA Fluor is the leading industrial engineering-construction company in Mexico, dedicated to the engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance of industrial facilities in the oil and gas, chemical, petrochemical, automotive, power, mining and telecommunication industries.
Sulphur is a valuable element required for plant growth; if we need to spread it on the earth to produce more biofuels, perhaps cars can be used to do it. ..HG..
Posted by: Henry Gibson | 24 March 2010 at 05:02 PM