Takreer And JCCP Move Ahead With ECP For Flare Gas Recovery Unit
Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company (Takreer) and Japanese Cooperation Center for Petroleum (JCCP) are to proceed with the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) phase of the Flare Gas Recovery unit at Ruwais refinery, according to UAE media reports on 26 April. In March 2005, the two parties signed an agreement to implement the front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase (MEES, 7 March 2005), which was completed last September by a consortium of Japanese companies comprised of Cosmo Oil, Cosmo Engineering, and Toyo Engineering Corporation. The EPC phase will cost $15.622mn that Takreer and JCCP will jointly cover. Toyo Engineering will carry out the project with a completion target of 25 months after start. The project is designed to reduce gas flare emissions at Ruwais through the recovery of 1,000 normal cu ms/hour (nm3/hr) of flare gas from the hydro-cracker complex. The facilities are to include a liquid ring compressor with associated piping, electrical, field and DCS instrumentation and civil works. Depending on the success of this undertaking, Takreer plans to extend the concept to its other facilities in order to reduce emissions.
