There’s a new housing subdivision being built across the street from me on an old elementary school property. There are 42 houses being built. The workers are all Hispanic/Latino and they are flying up! After the concrete foundation is laid and set, they swarm in, frame up the entire house in less than a day, roof it the next, drywall, electrical and plumbing and then outside brick work to finish. A new $300k+ home in less than a week..........................
Yeah, a bit of a difference from needing to build a coker unit and others.
20,000 hp gas compressor, Massive Drums that take a year or more for fabrication, etc
You are not going to go find the parts at home depot. Nor are you going to build it with semi-skilled labor.
Heck it took a few years just to engineer and design a similar project in Indiana. Look at the description of the project make BP Whiting capable of handling more heavy crude from Alberta.
800 modules and vessels
• 1,200 pieces of equipment
• 380 miles of pipe
• 50,000 tons of steel
• 1325 miles of wire and cable
• 15,000 concrete truck deliveries
• 95,000 truckload deliveries
• 14,000 piles to be driven
• 200 material deliveries per day
• 9,000+ Staff/Craft on ‘One Whiting’ site at peak
http://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp-bitumen/en_us/documents/WRMP.pdf