Oman Oil Refineries & Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic), has unveiled plans for a flare gas recovery system at its Sohar Refinery as part of a multibillion dollar investment, Oman Daily Observer has reported.
The project is part of Orpic’s energy conservation and emissions abatement programme aimed at helping in the recovery and processing of vent gases.
Proposal has been made for the recovered flare gas, to be compressed for use in the plant as a fuel gas.
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The project comes after a number of previous successful initiatives by Oman’s national company on the flare reduction front.
In September 2013, Orpic announced the commissioning of two projects for reducing flaring and sulphur dioxide emission as part of a comprehensive $50mn environment improvement programme (EIP).
As a result of that initiative, flaring at Sohar Refinery was reduced by 60% compared to 2011 figures. In quantity terms, flaring dropped from 12.5 tonnes per hour in 2010 to 4.5 tonnes in August 2013, the company stated
A number of international engineering firms are bidding for Orpic’s contract to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services linked to the installation of the flare gas recovery system.
Orpic highlighted in a seminar last month a number of contracting opportunities related to the CDU Column Revamp Project, RFCC Revamp Project, Texas Tower Project, Cooling Water System Project, Seawater RO Piping Upgrade, Work Environment Project, and Muscat-Sohar Product Pipeline.
The Sohar Refinery Improvement Project (SRIP) and Liwa Plastics Project (LPP) stand out as the biggest investments made by the Oman’s refineries and petroleum company in recent years.
Basic engineering for the Flare Gas Recovery Project has been carried out by US-based John Zink Hamworthy, a provider of emissions-control and clean-air systems and technologies.
