ICA Fluor nets $622m clean fuels contract in Mexico
24 Mar 2010
Mexico City –– Mexico’s state oil company, PEMEX Refining, has awarded ICA Fluor – a JV of Empresas ICA, SAB de CV and Fluor Corp. – the EPC contracts for two low-sulfur gasoline projects in Mexico valued at $622m.
The contract scope include the EPC, testing and start-up that includes the installation of the catalytic gasoline desulfurization plants, the amine regeneration units, offsites, utilities and integration for PEMEX’s existing Gral. Lazaro Cárdenas del Río Refinery in Minatitlan, Veracruz, and the Antonio Dovali Jaime Refinery located in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca.
Both the Minatitlan and Salina Cruz refinery projects each include 25,000 barrel-per-day catalytic distillation trains, the associated amine regeneration units, flare and all ancillary facilities. The work is scheduled to be completed in mid-2013.
The projects are under PEMEX’s clean fuels programms – part of the comprehensive development and modernisation of its refining operation to increase Mexico’s production of ultra low-sulfur gasoline in accordance with the applicable environmental standards.
