Kuwait – Mubasher: Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC) announced the closing of a deal with Honeywell UOP to expand its billion refining and petrochemical complex at Al-Zour, south of Kuwait City.
Under the deal, Honeywell UOP will provide KIPIC with technology licenses, design services, key equipment, and state-of-the-art catalysts and adsorbents to produce clean-burning fuels, paraxylene, propylene and other petrochemicals, according to MEED magazine.
“When completed, this will be the largest integrated refinery and petrochemicals plant ever constructed in Kuwait,” said John Gugel, Honeywell UOP’s vice president and general manager for process technology and equipment.
“In addition to aromatics and propylene, the Euro-V fuels it will produce will be the cornerstone of Kuwait’s clean fuels initiative,” Gugel added.
The project comprises a residue fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) complex with ethylene and propylene recovery with a daily capacity of 50,000 barrels, as well as Honeywell UOP Selectfining unit with a capacity of a 24,000 barrels per day (bpd), MEED reported.
The contract also includes a 66,000 bpd continuous catalyst regeneration (CCR) Platforming unit with a 74,000 bpd naphtha hydrotreater to make gasoline blend stock, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) business intelligence concluded.
