07 September 2015
MUSCAT: International engineering firms are lining up to bid for a contract to provide Project Management Consultancy (PMC) services to Oman Oil Refineries & Petroleum Industries Co. (Orpic), the Sultanate's refining and petrochemicals flagship, for a major petroleum coke (petcoke) handling and storage facility proposed by the state-owned refiner at its Sohar Refinery complex. Orpic plans to invest in an elaborate system of facilities for handling, storage, transport, and discharge of the sizable volumes of petcoke that will be produced as a byproduct of refining operations post the completion of its multibillion-dollar Sohar Refinery Improvement Project (SRIP).
A number of prominent international firms, along with their local partners, are already competing for a separate Engineering-Procurement-Construction (EPC) contract to implement the petcoke storage project on behalf of Orpic. Bids for the contract, covering a multimillion dollar package of works, closed on August 10.
Earlier this month, Orpic recently launched a competitive tender for the appointment of a qualified Project Management Consultant to oversee the implementation of the Petcoke Handling & Storage venture. "The objective of this tender is to select a reputed Consultant to (deliver) Project Management Consultancy (PMC) services for the Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Testing, Pre-commissioning, Commissioning and Handing over (EPC) of the Petcoke Handling & Storage Facility Project to be carried by the EPC contractor," the refiner said. Fuel grade petcoke is typically used as feedstock in cement kilns and electricity plants, while the calcined variety of pet coke, which has high carbon purity, is used in the manufacture of aluminium, graphite electrode, steel, titanium dioxide and other carbon consuming industries.
Plans approved by Orpic envisage a system of silos complete with belt feeders and conveyors for the storage of pet coke once the ongoing revamp and modernisation is completed during 2017. A key feature of the
project is a pair of reinforced concrete silos with a capacity to handle 60,000 metric tons of pet coke. Volumes destined for export will be fed from the silos into specially designed containers with openable bottom mechanisms. Flatbed trucks carrying these containers will shuttle from the storage site to the General Cargo Terminal operated by C Steinweg Oman where cranes will lift the containers and discharge their contents into the holds of a bulk carrier.
MUSCAT: International engineering firms are lining up to bid for a contract to provide Project Management Consultancy (PMC) services to Oman Oil Refineries & Petroleum Industries Co. (Orpic), the Sultanate's refining and petrochemicals flagship, for a major petroleum coke (petcoke) handling and storage facility proposed by the state-owned refiner at its Sohar Refinery complex. Orpic plans to invest in an elaborate system of facilities for handling, storage, transport, and discharge of the sizable volumes of petcoke that will be produced as a byproduct of refining operations post the completion of its multibillion-dollar Sohar Refinery Improvement Project (SRIP).
A number of prominent international firms, along with their local partners, are already competing for a separate Engineering-Procurement-Construction (EPC) contract to implement the petcoke storage project on behalf of Orpic. Bids for the contract, covering a multimillion dollar package of works, closed on August 10.
Earlier this month, Orpic recently launched a competitive tender for the appointment of a qualified Project Management Consultant to oversee the implementation of the Petcoke Handling & Storage venture. "The objective of this tender is to select a reputed Consultant to (deliver) Project Management Consultancy (PMC) services for the Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Testing, Pre-commissioning, Commissioning and Handing over (EPC) of the Petcoke Handling & Storage Facility Project to be carried by the EPC contractor," the refiner said. Fuel grade petcoke is typically used as feedstock in cement kilns and electricity plants, while the calcined variety of pet coke, which has high carbon purity, is used in the manufacture of aluminium, graphite electrode, steel, titanium dioxide and other carbon consuming industries.
Plans approved by Orpic envisage a system of silos complete with belt feeders and conveyors for the storage of pet coke once the ongoing revamp and modernisation is completed during 2017. A key feature of the
project is a pair of reinforced concrete silos with a capacity to handle 60,000 metric tons of pet coke. Volumes destined for export will be fed from the silos into specially designed containers with openable bottom mechanisms. Flatbed trucks carrying these containers will shuttle from the storage site to the General Cargo Terminal operated by C Steinweg Oman where cranes will lift the containers and discharge their contents into the holds of a bulk carrier.
© Oman Daily Observer 2015
