Proyecto de Conversión Profunda Refinería Puerto La Cruz
The project is designed to upgrade PPDVSA’s Puerto La Cruz refinery to deep conversion, a process that will increase the refinery’s gasoline output and enable it to process extra-heavy crude from Venezuela’s Orinoco oil belt. The refinery will be retooled to use PDVSA’s proprietary HDH Plus refining technology. The initiative aims to satisfy domestic demand and produce higher quality fuels that meet international air quality standards.
Fire halts flexicoker unit at Venezuela Amuay refinery
By Business News Americas staff reporter – Thursday, July 4, 2013
A fire caused Venezuela state oil firm PDVSA to halt the production of a 72,000b/d flexicoker unit at the Amuay refinery in northeastern Paraguaná peninsula.Amuay is the country’s largest refinery and part of the Paraguaná refinery complex (PRC) – the second largest in the world.
The fire lasted 20 minutes, caused no reported injuries and “began in an exchanger located on top of the flexicoker,” PRC general manger Jesús Luongo said in a PDVSA press release.PDVSA will continue normal operations of the rest of Amuay but did not indicate when it would bring the flexicoker unit back online.
Technip wins Venezuela hydrogen reformers contract
By Business News Americas staff reporter – Monday, July 1, 2013
French oil and gas services company Technip secured a contract to supply proprietary technology as well as engineering and procurement services for two hydrogen reformers in Venezuela.The contract was awarded by Hyundai-Wison engineering consortium for a “significant” price – ranging from 50mn-100mn euros (US$65.2mn-130mn), Technip said in a press release.
The completed reformers will process 135Mf3/d of methane and are part of Venezuela state oil firm PDVSA’s upgrade of the Puerto La Cruz refinery.”This project will utilize Technip’s high-efficiency top-fired steam reformers, to produce high-purity hydrogen and export steam, and the latest nitrogen oxide reduction technology to ensure minimum emissions,” the firm said.
Technip expects to complete the project in 2H14.