Tecnicas Reunidas, Daewoo pick WEG for $7bn Duqm Refinery
Brazilian motor, drive, and automation
technology firm WEG has secured its biggest oil and gas sector contract to date
– from engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firms Tecnicas Reunidas
of Spain and Daewoo Engineering and Construction from South Korea – with two
project framework agreements for Oman’s Duqm Refinery, with the deal including
medium- and low-voltage equipment, and the establishment of a service centre
close to the 900ha construction site of Duqm Refinery, a $7bn (OMR2.69bn)
integrated complex that is being developed through a partnership between Oman
Oil Co and Kuwait Petroleum International in Special Economic Zone in Duqm
(Sezad).
WEG will deliver all motors and variable
speed drives (VSDs) for the project, with the first of its two agreements
covering medium-voltage equipment.
The medium-voltage equipment order includes
12 VSDs and more than 120 electric motors, including four 18-pole synchronous
motors, with a combined capacity of 10,500kW, for the hydrogen makeup
reciprocating compressors.
Gas compressors are used in refinery process
units to compress hydrogen, WEG explained, adding that reciprocating
compressors are used for makeup gas service in high-pressure applications such
as hydrocracking.
The second agreement is related to
low-voltage equipment and includes more than 1,300 electric motors and 200
VSDs, WEG said in a statement.
Duqm Refinery is expected to complete in
2022 and process 230,000 barrels per day of crude oil, primarily producing
diesel, jet fuel, naphtha, and liquefied petroleum gas.
Commenting on the contract, WEG’s
international director, Luis Gustavo Lopes Iensen, said: “Projects like this
require a flawless project management process as purchase orders will be placed
by the selected mechanical rotating equipment vendors located worldwide through
multiple WEG sales offices.
“To guarantee commercial consistency and
technical compliance to the specification, a support team has been established
at WEG’s headquarters in Brazil.”
