North Atlantic Refining Evaluates $1 Billion Investment to Expand Refinery in Newfoundland

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--North Atlantic Refining Limited (NARL) (Come by Chance, Newfoundland) is evaluating plans to invest $1 billion to process a new crude slate at its refinery in Come by Chance, Newfoundland. The company is looking to process a less expensive crude oil to become more competitive. NARL has chosen SNC Lavalin (Sarnia, Ontario) to perform a feasibility study and evaluate options for the new units to be constructed at the refinery. NARL will modify and revamp many existing units at the refinery to support the high sulfur crude oil.

NARL expects to evaluate the expansion project through the end of 2008. The company currently processes light to medium sour crude oil and is looking to process additional heavy sour crude. The new units involved in the expansion project, will include: a 30,000- to 50,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) delayed coker unit, a 2,250 BBL/d sulfur recovery unit, a 25,000-30,000 BBL/d distillate hydrotreater, a 50 million-75 million-standard-cubic-feet-per-day hydrogen plant, a 25,000-30,000 BBL/d naphtha hydrotreater unit, a 25,000-30,000 BBL/d vacuum gas oil hydrotreater, merox unit and associated off-site utilities. The company expects to select an engineering and construction company to perform engineering, procurement and construction services for the project, which is expected to go online in 2011 or 2012.

NARL currently operates a 115,000 BBL/d refinery that was built in the early 1970's. The company processes 63% light to medium sour crude, 19% sweet crude, 16% heavy sour, and 2% high acid sweet.

The refinery was shutdown in 1976 and restarted in 1986 by Newfoundland Processing Limited. NARL purchased the refinery in 1994 from Newfoundland Processing Limited. The refinery was purchased by Harvest Energy in October 2006, making it a fully integrated oil and gas company.

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