Samsung Engineering wins the Sonatrach Hassi Messaoud Refinery in Algeria

January 2020

 Samsung Engineering, one of the world’s leading engineering, procurement, construction and project management (EPC&PM) companies, announced today, that it signed about 3.7 billion USD contract for the Sonatrach Hassi Messaoud (HMD) refinery project in Algeria at an official signing ceremony. The project was awarded with Técnicas Reunidas(TR) of Spain as joint venture partner and is located at Hassi Messaoud, 600km southeast from the Algeria’s capital Algiers. The signing ceremony was attended by Kamel Eddine Chikhi, Sonatrach President & CEO, Juan Lladó Arburúa TR Vice Chairman & CEO and Sungan Choi, Samsung Engineering President & CEO.

The refinery plant will process 110,000 barrels of crude oil per day and will be executed on an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) lump-sum turn-Key basis for approximately 52 months.

The scope of work includes Process & Utility Unit, Crude Distillation Unit (CDU)/ Vacuum Distillation Unit (VDU), Continuous Catalytic reforming (CCR) Unit, Isomerization, Naphtha Hydro-treating(NHT) Unit, Hydrodesulfurization(HDS) Unit, Hydrocracker Unit (HCU) as well as Utility Systems.

Sonatrach roadmap is to invest heavily in petrochemicals as well as in oil and gas development, which will give Samsung Engineering the opportunity to be part of Sonatrach’s value chain from the very beginning of the process.

Samsung Engineering is confident that the HMD refinery project will be completed with excellence, since refinery is one of the company's flagship products. Samsung has successfully completed many refinery projects globally in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait and Algeria with excellent experience and superior technology.

In addition, Samsung Engineering will execute the HMD refinery project with TR as JV partner, who is also cooperating in other on-going project. The mutual familiarity with TR reduces risk and maximizes synergy for the HMD refinery project.

Samsung Engineering’s President & CEO Sungan Choi stated:” Samsung Engineering is honored to be trusted again by Sonatrach as contractor. Our expertise in refinery projects and know-how of the region, will secure a state of the art refinery for Algeria.”

Shanghai LNG celebrates Yangshan terminal expansion milestone

28 Nov 2019

At the recent inauguration of the Yangshan LNG terminal’s new gasification facilities, our client, Shanghai LNG, had good reason to mark the occasion. As Shanghai’s main source of natural gas supply, the doubling of the terminal’s hourly export capacity, from 1.04 million to 2.14 million cubic meters, the city’s winter gas consumption is now more strongly guaranteed. An important objective of this major expansion project on which Tractebel is providing Project Management Consulting services and technical expert back-up.

Begun in 2017 and expected to complete in 2020 with the construction of two new build LNG storage tanks of 200,000m³/each, the project will also greatly enhance the safety reserve capacity of Shanghai natural gas. With the challenge of such projects being a need for highly experienced planning and management of expansion works in terminals which must remain operational during new construction, it’s also likely to enhance Tractebel’s reputation for large LNG terminal expansion expertise in this region.

For Tractebel LNG experts, who first proved their worth in China on the Shanghai Wuhaogou LNG terminal expansion in Pudong (2013 – 2016), the Yangshan contract, is also a milestone. But as we like to say; there’s room for expansion yet.