sincor Petcoke and sulfur handling facility

PROJECT: Greenfield Petcoke and Sulfur Export Facility LOCATION: Jose, Venezuela
for Upgrader Refinery
CLIENT: Sincor (Total, PDVSA, Statoil) SERVICES: Conceptual Through Final Engineering,
Procurement and Construction Management

DESCRIPTION PRINCIPAL FEATURES

The Sincor Coke and Sulfur Handling Facility was More than 2,200 feet of stockpile conveyors operating
designed to handle 2.4 million tpy of petroleum coke at 1,800 tph
and 380,000 tpy of either molten or prilled sulfur. River
More than 2.75 miles of petroleum coke conveyors from
Consulting provided complete EPCM (Engineer, Procure,
storage yard to shiploaders operating at 2,200 tph
Construction Management) Services for the construction
of this major coke and sulfur export facility. Two million square foot soil cement storage pad with
the capacity to store 1.1 million tons of petroleum coke
Design included state of the art material handling
systems and storage for petcoke and prilled and 720 feet of shuttle stacking conveyor with telescoping
liquid sulfur to transport the product from the nearby spout
refinery to storage and out for export. The material
26 gravity reclaim pits with vibrating hoppers
handling systems included miles of conveyors, stacking,
stockpiling and reclaim systems, dust suppression Radial stacker for emergency coke storage
systems, shiploaders, steam-traced piping, a sulfur
Three miles of molten sulfur steam-traced piping
loading arm, and marine structures. Storage consisted
of two massive cement storage pads and sulfur storage 90,000 ton storage pad with a 900 tph conveyor system
tanks. The project team implemented key features such for prilled sulfur reclaim handling
as dual orbiting shiploaders, the first of their type to be
Dual orbiting shiploaders operating at a nominal rate of
constructed, and also bulk and liquid loadout capability
2,200 tph; the first of their type ever constructed
via a single berthing point on the dock.
Three 15,000 mt sulfur storage tanks (120 foot diameter
The more than 190,000 man-hour project was executed
x 32 feet high)
on a fast-track basis with River Consulting procuring 95
equipment sub-systems and managing all construction 3.3 km 16-inch sulfur pipeline from storage to marine
contracts for this $270 million project. The successful dock
project execution resulted in the stockpiling of petroleum
coke just 18 months after the start of conceptual
engineering.

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