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Chalmette Heavy Oil Processing Project (CHOPP)
Client: Tenneco Oil Company
Location: Chalmette, LA, U.S.
Business Segment: Energy Solutions
Industry: Fuels
Executive Summary
Tenneco contracted Fluor for a refinery expansion and modernization project at its Chalmette, Louisiana, refinery to increase crude oil capacity and gasoline production. We provided engineering, procurement, construction and project management services for the project.
The expansion and modernization increased crude oil capacity from 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 127,000 bpd and gasoline production from 51,000 bpd to 80,000 bpd.
Client's Challenge
The updated facilities, along with the existing reformer capacity, provided the refinery flexibility to meet future gasoline quality demands and take advantage of a changing gasoline market.
Fluor's Solution
Fluor was responsible for managing the engineering, procurement and construction of the entire project. We also had responsibility for performing engineering and procurement services on a substantial portion of the project, including eight major process units and eight licensors.
Overall work included a installing a 42,000-bpd fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU), a 16,000-bpd hydrofluoric acid alkylation unit, a 35,000-bpd FCCU feed hydrotreater, a vacuum unit, two 180-tons-per-day sulfur trains, a 19,000-bpd delayed coking unit, an amine regeneration section and gasoline treating units. In addition, an existing crude unit was revamped, and numerous offsites and utilities were revised or added.
More than 3,500 workers were on site at peak construction. Scheduling was critical as 286 subcontractors under our direction assisted in building about one-third of the facilities.
Conclusion
Our teamwork approach with Tenneco and subcontractors, along with a comprehensive, totally integrated critical path schedule, were key to the job's on-schedule, on-budget completion.
