Revamp Experience
Uhde has extensive project delivery experience in performing revamps and capacity upgrades to existing refineries to meet market drivers such as:
- Increased capacity requirements
- Tighter product quality specifications
- Increase in octane pool
- Poor quality or distressed cargo crude feedstock
- Energy conservation through the use of pinch analysis techniques and/or equipment enhancements
- Support for planned maintenance turnarounds
- Rejuvenation of aging facilities
This type of work demands a different set of skills from greenfields projects, including:
- Use of laser scanning and photogrammetric as-built data gathering, validation and updating of existing design data and documentation
- Base line performance testing and optimization
- Knowledge of working within a live operating plant
- Specialised construction techniques such as modularisation to minimise on-site work and personnel exposure to an operating plant environment, and to improve fabrication quality
These projects often start with a comprehensive field test run, followed by optimisation studies to determine the existing capacity and actual performance of the unit before revamp design commences.
Uhde’s activities in this sector are demonstrated by the following recent Reference Projects: