Essar Projects – the global EPC arm of Essar – was awarded the contract for providing pre-commissioning, commissioning and start-up services for the 650,000 BPD greenfield refinery being set up by Dangote Oil Refining Company Ltd. (DORCL) in Lekki Free Zone of Nigeria.
Amidst challenges of managing diverse interphases & coordination with multiple partakers, Essar Projects’ team cross-checked and ensured that all the units that had been constructed were safe for commissioning. Thereafter, procedures & execution methodology for Pre-commissioning, Commissioning, Start-up and Stabilization were developed and finally, the team has commenced Commissioning of various Units – thus enabling Dangote Refinery to achieve the significant milestone of beginning the production of Diesel and Aviation fuel. All this was undertaken while adhering to all the HSE standards.
Some of the major processing facilities at the refinery include a Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) and associated facilities, a Mild Hydrocracking (MHC) unit, a Residual Fluid Catalytic Cracking (RFCC) unit, a Naphtha Hydrotreater (NHT), and a Gasoline Hydrodesulphurization (GHDU) unit, Alkylation units, RFCC Gasoline Desulphurization Unit (RGDU), Hydrogen Generation Unit (HGU) and Sulphur Recovery Unit (SRU) to produce sulphur-free fuels. There is also a Polypropylene Unit (PPU).
Essar Projects is steering the Commissioning activities of the world’s largest single-train refinery and will continue to support the DORL team through start-up and stabilization.
About Essar Projects:
Essar Projects is part of the infrastructure portfolio of Essar Global Fund Limited (EGFL). With more than 50 years’ experience entailing successful delivery of over USD 11 Billion worth of projects of scale and complexity, Essar Projects has played a defining role in the EPC domain; offering value-added, end-to-end project delivery solutions, whilst managing diverse technological interfaces in a collaborative manner, thereby bringing in an OWNER’S PERSPECTIVE to EPC delivery.
Over the past five decades, Essar Projects has accumulated experience of executing mega scale industrial and infrastructure projects in varied industry segments, like Refineries, Petrochemical & Fertilizer Plants, Minerals & Metals, Offshore and Infrastructure. It’s footprint spreads across India, Middle East, Europe, Americas and the challenging geographies of Africa and Australasia.