Belgium refinery orders GE compressors
GE Oil & Gas will provide a variety of compressors for an off-gas expansion project as part of Total’s US$1.3 billion expansion of its Antwerp, Belgium, refinery complex.
The compression equipment, ordered by the Italian engineering, procurement and construction company Kinetics Technology, will convert low-value refinery off-gases into a low-cost petrochemical feedstock. The project will enable Total to recover hydrocarbons by processing them as feed streams in the existing naphtha cracker, replacing the need for expensive oil-based naphtha feeds.
The US$33 million order includes multiple trains of motor-driven ethylene and propylene refrigeration, saturated and unsaturated off-gas compressors and a turboexpander-driven compressor together with GE’s project management, parts and installation services.The equipment will be delivered in the third quarter of 2015 to support the start-up of the expanded refinery in early 2017.