El Palito refinery expansion project
Héctor Javier Vegas Álvarez
Lead Process Engineering
Lead Process engineering
Contractor: Toyo, Foster Wheeler,
Owner: PDVSA
01 Oct 2004 - 01 Aug 2015. almost 11 years
Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, Venezuela
Engineering, procurenment and construction of new facilities for el palito refinery in order to increase the current capacity from 140 kbd to 280 kbd. The new facilities include a new distilation train, new CCR, new DSL HDT and new VGO HDT units. Also are included new auxilliary units such as ARU, SWS, SRU, HPU and new utilities.