Total SA Plans Hydrotreater Addition at Gonfreville Refinery in France

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Total SA (NYSE:TOT) (Paris, France) plans to add a new gas oil hydrotreater at the 364,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) Gonfreville Refinery in the Haute Normandie region of France. The refinery is the largest in France.

The new gas oil unit, known as DGO5, is scheduled to be completed by the third quarter of 2013. With a processing capacity of 27,700 BBL/d, this unit will replace DGO2, which will be permanently shut down once DGO5 starts operating.

The construction is part of a 730 million-euro ($950 million) refinery reconfiguration project to increase diesel production by 10%. This project also includes upgrading the existing 205,000-BBL/d crude distillation unit, known as D11, and the expansion of the existing 48,000-BBL/d deep hydrocracker.

Work on the two units will be carried out during a 60-day turnaround scheduled to take place in September and October 2012.

The engineering, construction and procurement contracts have been awarded to different companies that are currently performing detailed engineering phases: the D11 unit upgrade has been awarded to Foster Wheeler Italiana (Corsico, Italy), while the hydrocracker's expansion and the new unit addition have been assigned to Technip (EPA:TEC) (Paris, France).

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