Al-Zour Refinery Project

Summary Information

• Also known as Al Zoor Refinery Project
• Ownership: KNPC
• Website: http://www.knpc.com.kw/
• Wiki Page: Al Zour Refinery
• Location: Kuwait
• Capacity: 30.75 million tons/annum & 615,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Project Stage: Commissioning
• Expected Completion: 2020
• Budget:

The Project

• Project Type: Greenfield Refinery
• Project Summary: The New Refinery Project is a 615,000 bpd grassroots refinery to be built in Kuwait and will consist of over 15 process units plus buildings, utilities and offsite facilities.
• The * Al Zour Petrochemical Refinery Integration Project PRIZe is to be constructed alongside the refinery
• Main Contractors
  • AMEC: Project Management Consultancy (PMC) contract
  • Honeywell: Integrated Control and Safety System (ICSS)
  • UOP: Licences for various units
  • Fluor / Daewoo / Hyundai : EPC package for a variety of key process units, utilities and infrastructure
• Cancelled Contracts
  • HDEC received the fifth package worth around U$ 1.12 billion to build the marine facilities

Refining Units

• Residuum Hydrotreater Complex - 330,000 BPSD - Chevron Lummus Global
• 50,000 barrels per day (bpd) RFCC complex with ethylene and propylene recovery,
• 24,000 bpd Honeywell UOP SelectfiningTM unit to produce low-sulfur gasoline.
• Two Honeywell UOP Merox™ units
• UOP Ethermax™ unit
• Butamer™ unit
• CCR Platforming™ unit, 66,000 barrel-per-day (bpd)

naphtha hydrotreater, 74,000 bpd

• LD Parex™ aromatics complex — including the Honeywell UOP Sulfolane™, Isomar™ and Tatoray™ processes
• Oleflex™ propane dehydrogenation unit, 660,000 metric tons per year

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• Will process Kuwait Export, Medium and Heavy grade crudes

Products Produced

• The refinery will produce 225,000BPSD of low sulfur Fuel Oil(1.0wt.%Sulfur)to meet the growing demand of power generation plants in Kuwait.
• Will produce 340,000 bpd of export products

History

• 2012 - Project relaunched after cancellation
• 2012 - AMEC awarded $528 million Project Management Consultancy (PMC) contract
• 2013 - Honeywell awarded ICSS contract
• 2015 - Fluor awarded EPC contract
• 2017 - UOP awarded contracts for upgrading

Other Information

• Due to political problems, the project was previously cancelled before being revived

Links

1. KNPC, Projects
2. SK E&C Receives Orders for Plant Construction in Amount of $2.06 Billion
3. Chevron Lummus Global Selected by Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation to Build World’s Largest Residuum Hydrotreater Complex
4. Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd. tops U$ 5 Billion in New Orders from Overseas
5. AMEC awarded $528 million new refinery contract by KNPC, Kuwait
6. Honeywell To Automate Systems For Largest Refinery In The Middle East
7. Fluor Awarded Kuwait’s Al-Zour Contracts
8. Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company to Expand Al-Zour Refinery with Honeywell Technology
9. Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company to Expand Al-Zour Refinery with Honeywell Technology