China’s Sinopec Heavy Lifting & Transportation Company (SLT) has been subcontracted to work on the first phase of the Duqm Refinery and Petrochemicals Industries scheme.

The specialist heavy lifting contractor is using the XGC88000, world’s largest crawler crane, for the project.

Crawler cranes are cranes mounted on an undercarriage with a set of tracks, also known as crawlers, that allow it to move around.

The XGC88000 has already been used to lift a diesel hydrogenation reactor, weighing 808t, into place as part of the EPC 1 package, according to a statement released by SLT.

The diesel hydrogenation reactor is 45.7m-tall.

In a statement, Sinopec said that there are totally 107 pieces of heavy equipment for Duqm Refinery EPC 1 package, of which 15 super-heavy pieces will be lifted by the XGC88000.

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The main contract for EPC 1 is worth $2.4bn and was awarded to a joint venture of Tecnicas Reunidas and Daewoo E&C in August 2017.

Its scope includes:

Construction of a crude distillation unit with a capacity of 2,30,000bpd
Construction of a vacuum distillation unit with a capacity of 120,000bpd
Construction of a saturated gas plant with a capacity of 6,500 mT/d
Construction of hydrocracker unit with a capacity of 74,000 BPSD
Construction of coker unit and unsaturated gas plant with a capacity of 52,000 BPSD
Construction of coker amine regeneration unit
Construction of coker sour water treatment system
Construction of kerosene treatment unit with a capacity of 40,500 BPSD
Construction of two LPG treatment units each unit with a capacity of 12,500 BPSD
Construction of diesel hydrotreater unit with a capacity of 83.500 BPSD
Construction of two hydrogen production units each with 126,500 Nm3/d
Construction of two amine regeneration units each with 415 mT/d
Construction of two sour water stripper each with 44 mT/d
Construction of three sulfur recovery units each with 355 mT/d
Construction of local electrical substations
Construction of 23 buildings on an area of 18000m²
Construction of local control stations
Installation of cooling towers
Laying of interconnecting pipe racks
Installation of safety and security system
Civil and underground piping works

The project management consultant (PMC) is Wood Group.

In August 2019 officials said that the Duqm refinery was 25% complete and they expected it to be operational in 2022.

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