$4 billion Reliance Jamnagar Refinery Coke gasification: PMS contract awarded

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is converting a part of the fuel production for export into petrochemical added value products.
In that purpose, RIL has awarded a contract to Fluor to provide project management services (PMS) for its refining and petrochemical projects to be executed in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India.
Commissioned on July 1999 with an installed refining capacity of 668,000 b/d, 1.9 million t/y Polypropylene and 1.5 million t/y Paraxylene unit, Jamnagar is the largest refinery and Aromatics facility in the world.
RIL’s capital expenditure in the expansion of energy and petrochemicals projects represents one of the largest such investments globally.
The proposed coke gasification facility is also among the largest such projects ever built.
The project scope of work of the extension includes:
 - Petroleum coke gasification units
 - A refinery off-gas cracker
 - Downstream petrochemical plants
 - Captive power plant
 - Associated utilities and offsites.
Reliance reported that the refinery off-gas cracker expansion would increase production capacity:
 - Ethylene  from 1.8m t/y to 3.2m t/y
 - Propylene from 759,000 t/y to 913,000 t/y
 - Monoethylene glycol from 733,000 t/y to 1.4m t/y
 - Low-density polyethylene from 190,000 t/y to 590,000 t/y
 - High-density and linear low-density polyethylene from 928,000 to 1.4m t/y
 - Paraxylene from 1.8m t/y to 3.6m t/y
 - Acetic Acid 1 million t/y
 - plus Vinyl Acetate Monomer (VAM) and Polyvinyl Acetate (PA).

Fluor wins the Engineering and Procurement Services

In addition to project management services, Fluor will provide engineering and procurement services (EPS) for RIL’s $4bn petroleum coke gasification project.
The completed gasification project will gasify petroleum coke to produce fuel and hydrogen for the expanded refinery, petrochemical complexes and captive power plant, as well as feedstock for future chemicals production
The two contract awards to Fluor will support Reliance Industries‘ next phase of growth in India and are also important milestones for the company.
 All together Reliance will spend $11 billion capital expenditure in this Jamnagar Refinery extension program to be completed in 2016.

E-Gas™ Technology

CB&I’s E-Gas™ technology has the potential to make use of our most abundant energy resource – coal – in such a way as to dramatically reduce its environmental impact. This proven technology is one of the cleanest, most efficient commercial processes for converting coal or petroleum coke into a hydrogen rich synthesis gas, ideally suited for substitute natural gas production, power generation, and refining or chemical manufacturing applications.
The process can cost-effectively remove more than 95 percent of the mercury in coal, and, greater than 99 percent of the sulfur can be recovered and marketed for use primarily in the fertilizer industry. Additionally, the gasification process produces no ash and recycles byproducts into useful products including road construction materials.
With more than 25 years of proven commercial experience, the E-Gas technology for gasification provides a highly efficient, environmentally superior, and competitive base-load power alternative. In a refinery setting, the technology can process high sulfur petroleum coke into power, steam and hydrogen for the refinery and surrounding markets.

Phillips 66 licenses technology to Reliance for India gasification project

The planned gasification plants at the massive refining complex in Jamnagar will process petroleum coke and coal into synthesis gas for use as chemical feedstock.

Keywords:

Phillips 66 has agreed to license its E-Gas technology to Reliance Industries for its planned gasification plants at Jamnagar, India, officials said on Monday.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Reliance's Jamnagar site is the largest refining complex in the world, with an aggregate refining capacity of 1.3 million bpd.
The planned gasification plants at Jamnagar will be among the largest in the world and will process petroleum coke and coal into synthesis gas utilizing the E-Gas technology, the company says.
The synthesis gas will be used as feedstock for a new chemical complex and will fuel the refinery's existing gas turbine power generation units.
“We look forward to this opportunity to work with Reliance on the largest gasification project in the world,” said Rex Bennett, president of specialties and business development at Phillips 66.
“Our E-Gas technology will be used to turn petcoke and coal into clean, reliable energy for Reliance’s refinery and petrochemical plant operations.”
Phillips 66, the downstream spinoff of ConocoPhillips, will also provide process engineering design and technical support relating to the gasification technology process area, it said.
The E-Gas technology has been utilized in commercial applications since 1987, Phillips 66 said.
It incorporates a gasification system design that can be applied with gas and steam turbine combined-cycle power generation to produce electric power, as well as synthesis gas applications for the production of hydrogen, chemicals or substitute natural gas in flexible combinations.

First Post

Not at all difficult to write a first post. You find lots of things to say, explain and do.... staring a first job in world largest refinery ,indeed luck. following the treads and traditions working in a world biggest factory leads to a thought that why not to have my own crude oil refiney as some one had.
Thinking a bit , if a person with a strong willpower can do magical things, then why not I , a B.Tech fellow!going in to that direction lets see..