TechnipFMC, the Oil and gas service company has signed an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract with Assiut National Oil Processing Company (ANOPC) for the development of a replacement Assiut refinery hydrocracking complex in Egypt.
This EPC contract includes new process units like a Diesel Hydrocracking Unit, a Vacuum Distillation Unit, a Delayed Coker Unit, a Distillate Hydrotreating Unit, and a Hydrogen Production Facility Unit using TechnipFMC’s steam reforming proprietary technology. The project also includes additional process units, interconnecting, offsites and utilities. The complex will convert lower-value petroleum products from Assiut Oil Refining Company’s (ASORC) nearby refinery into approximately 2.8 million tonnes per annum of cleaner products, like Euro 5 diesel.
Catherine MacGregor, President of Technip Energies, mentioned, “This award demonstrates TechnipFMC’s long-standing relationship with the Egyptian petroleum sector and strengthens our expertise delivery of complex projects within the country.
“It comes after successful execution of the FEED (2), reflecting our selective approach and the importance of being involved at a very early stage of any development. Assiut is taken into account one among the main strategic projects needed to satisfy growing local demand for cleaner products, and that we are extremely honored to possess been selected by ANOPC to contribute to the largest refining project to be implemented in Upper Egypt .”
The firm is functioning with ANOPC to finish the remaining precedent conditions to permit project work to start. When all the requirements are met, the company will include the contract award in its inbound.