IOC lets contract for new unit at Barauni refinery

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC) has let a contract to a consortium of Maire Tecnimont SpA to provide engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning (EPCC) services for a new unit to be installed as part of IOC’s project to increase crude oil processing capacity at its 6-million tonnes/year (tpy) Barauni refinery in Begusarai District, Bihar, in north-eastern India.

 

As part of the contract of the 5th July, Tecnimont SPA and Tecnimont Private Ltd will deliver EPCC up to the performance guarantees test run for a 200,000-tpy grassroots polypropylene plant and associated logistics installations, Maire Tecnimont said.

 

Valued at US$170-million, the lump-sum EPCC contract is scheduled to run 30 months from the award date to mechanical completion of the project, according to the service provider.

 

Officially approved in 2020, the 148.10-billion rupee Barauni refinery expansion will increase crude processing capacity by three million tpy to nine million tpy as well as add downstream polymer units at the site as part of IOC’s strategy to help meet growing domestic demand for petroleum products in India.

 

Expansion overview

Alongside construction of a grassroots nine-million tpy atmospheric-vacuum distillation unit (AVU) to replace the refinery’s three existing AVUs and addition of the new 200,000-tpy polypropylene unit, the project also entails installation of the following major grassroots units:

 

  • Two new sulphur recovery units, each with a capacity of 80 tonnes/day

 

  • A new 1.2-million tpy diesel hydrotreating unit

 

 

  • A new 304,000-tpy isomerisation unit

 

  • A new 360,000-tpy NHDT unit designed to treat naphtha feed moving specifically to the isomerisation unit

 

  • A new 1.2-million tpy diesel hydrotreating unit

 

  • A new 61,000-tpy hydrogen generation unit

 

  • A new 1-million tpy once-through hydrocracking unit

 

  • A new 562,000-tpy propylene recovery unit

 

  • A new 200,000-tpy polypropylene unit

 

  • A new 390,000-tpy LPG treatment unit

 

  • A new 880,000-tpy naphtha splitting unit

 

  • A new 500-tonnes/hr amine recovery unit

 

  • A new 220-tonnes/hr sour water stripping unit

 

  • A new 6,178-kg/hr flue gas amine treating unit

 

The expansion project also will involve revamps and upgrades to increase capacity of current units at the refinery, including:

 

  • Expanding the refinery’s existing 210,000-tpy naphtha hydrotreating (NHDT) and catalytic reforming combined capacity to 300,000 tpy

 

  • Expanding capacity of the existing 1.4-million tpy residue fluid catalytic cracking unit to 1.7 million tpy

 

  • Expanding capacity of the existing 500,000-tpy Coker B to 662,000 tpy.

 

The Barauni crude processing capacity expansion currently remains on schedule for commissioning by April 2023, IOC said in May.

 

Source: Oil & Gas Journal