Client: Phillips Petroleum Company
Location: Borger, TX, U.S.
Business Segment: Energy Solutions
Industry: Fuels
Executive Summary
Fluor provided the design, engineering and procurement for a new low sulfur gasoline unit to be installed at Phillips Petroleum Company's refinery in Borger, Texas. This 6,000-barrels-per-stream-day unit was the first commercial scale application of the Phillips S Zorb process for reduction of sulfur in gasoline.
Client's Challenge
The S Zorb process was a new desulfurization technology developed by Phillips to meet the latest governmental regulations for low sulfur gasoline.
This project served as a demo plant to test the proprietary S Zorb technology to prove the technical and operational viability of the unit and provide test data for licensing and marketing efforts.
Fluor's Solution
During the Approved for Design phase, we developed a detailed plan and cost estimate for the project. Long lead equipment was purchased to support the fast track schedule. We prepared the detailed design and deliverables necessary to construct the unit during the EPC phase. All purchases were placed, and the cost estimates and schedules were updated as required.
The project was both cost and schedule driven. The efforts of the joint Phillips/Fluor team achieved several million dollars in capital cost savings, representing a significant portion of the plant's original capital cost estimate.
As the unit was a first-of-its-kind technology, Phillips' research & design personnel made a design change to accommodate their findings during fluidization testing while the detailed design effort was underway. This change was absorbed by the team without a significant schedule impact.
Conclusion
We completed the S Zorb demo plant project in 2000.
