Oil Patch Bits: Fluor announces award of Sasol oxygen train project

Flour Corp. has been awarded a contract by Sasol Group Technology, a division of Sasol South Africa Ltd, for the engineering, procurement and construction of the additional oxygen capacity train 17 outside battery limits project at its Secunda plant in South Africa. Fluor will book the undisclosed contract value in the third quarter of 2016.

The additional oxygen capacity train 17 project comprises the construction and commissioning of the world’s largest air separation unit at the Secunda Synfuels operations site.

“This significant award will allow Fluor to demonstrate its integrated solutions approach and ability to execute lump-sum EPC projects with excellence,” said Alejandro Escalona, general manager, Fluor South Africa. “The benefits to both the project and to Sasol include schedule predictability, cost certainty, reduced risk, single-point accountability, optimization of commercial process, improved interfaces and reduced cost for the owner. This award marks the continuation of a successful relationship that has spanned more than half a century and includes some of South Africa’s landmark projects.”

Fluor will provide engineering, procurement and construction of the outside battery limits facilities for this project including the integration of train 17’s product streams with other live operations. These include high pressure oxygen, high pressure and low pressure nitrogen as well as dry air. Also included in the scope is the supply of electricity with associated infrastructure and utilities upgrades to the air separation unit.

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