Technip Awarded EPCM Contract for Valero’s Port Arthur Refinery Offsite Units

French engineering group Technip has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and management contract by the Valero-owned Premcor Refining Group for part of the $2.4 billion expansion of the Port Arthur refinery in Texas.

Technip’s scope of work consists of two offsite processing units associated with the expansion of the refinery, including a saturate gas recovery unit and an amine treatment unit.

The expansion is expected to boost overall refinery throughput capacity to 415,000 barrels per day making it one of the largest refineries in the US and is expected to give Valero additional capacity to process heavy sour feedstocks.