Toyo lands award for large-scale refinery modernization project in Venezuela
By Gerald Ondrey |
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp), being a leader of a consortium with Foster Wheeler AG (FW), and the Venezuelan engineering company Y&V Ingeniería y Construcción, C.A. (Y&V), has been awarded a contract for detailed engineering, procurement services and construction management for a petroleum-refinery expansion project of the Venezuelan national petroleum company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) at its El Palito Refinery in Carabobo State.
This project is aiming to double the production capacity of the refinery by building a new facility to make the most of the heavy crude oil abundantly produced from the Orinoco Belt of the country. The new refinery processes heavy crude oil (140,000 bpsd) and part of the products from the existing refinery (140,000 bpsd) is to be further treated in the new refinery as well. The project also aims to improve quality of the product and to meet higher environmental standards and increasing demand in Venezuela, as well as for export.
Toyo is performing front-end engineering design (FEED) in consortium with FW and Y&V and has been awarded this contract under the trust relationship with PDVSA.
At present, Toyo is performing the PMC for…
Related Content Recently Published Books for the CPI: January 2021 The following is a list of recently published books of potential interest for CPI professionals Digital Transformation for the…The 2021 Kirkpatrick Award: Call for nominations Since 1933, Chemical Engineering has honored noteworthy chemical engineering technologies that have advanced to the commercialization phase. These technologies generally…Business News: January 2021 Plant Watch LG Chem to run Wuxi cathode-materials plant on 100% renewable power December 14, 2020 — LG Chem Ltd.…Chemical Activity Barometer climbs in December, ACC says The Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), rose…U.S. chemical production rises in November, ACC says The U.S. Chemical Production Regional Index (U.S. CPRI) rose 0.4% in November following a 1.1% gain in October and a…
Chemical Engineering publishes FREE eletters that bring our original content to our readers
in an easily accessible email format about once a week.
Subscribe Now