NEW REACTOR BEING ROLLED OFF THE BARGE
SPMTS MOVING A PIPE RACK INTO POSITION ON SITE
MAMMOET'S SELF-PROPELLED SKIDDING SYSTEM
SPMTS MOVING A PIPE RACK INTO POSITION ON SITE
MAMMOET'S SELF-PROPELLED SKIDDING SYSTEM
Way cool! Thanks for posting!
My former company, Shared Systems Technology, did refractory work on the GOHT (called goat) the boilers and fixed the fireproofing on all the structural steel (in addition to fireproofing the field joints)
I was on-site at Whiting several times.
Basically, I liked the way some BP officials put it....we are building a refinery inside an existing refinery.
Amazing project with over 15,000 contractors badged to work on the site.
It was an amazing display of coordination.
For later....
Wow, that shows the scale of this monstrosity. Pretty cool.
Sort of makes the expression “you didn't build that” a very stupid thing to say. BHO, p_resident of the USA...
Let the record show that this is occurring in... Indiana.
The BP plant was one part of the financial empire of oil tycoon John D Rockefeller, when it first began producing kerosene and other petroleum products in 1890. Situated on the southern shore of Lake Michigan, in the very heart of America’s bustling industrial Midwest, the refinery prospered for decades, along with nearby Chicago and other cities of the region.
While, the past couple of decades have seen rough economic times in northern Indiana, as some of the steel mills and factories were shut down, BP’s Whiting refinery continued making gasoline and other products.
And, today, the refinery is thriving, thanks to its location and a multi-billion-dollar investment that will make the plant the keystone of BP’s US fuels strategy for years to come. The Whiting Refinery Modernisation Project (WRMP) saw the completion of commissioning of refinery units in December 2013, with all the major new units associated with the project successfully brought onstream.
The reconfigured refinery, located in the hub of a vast network of pipelines and railroads, can now process as much as 80% heavy crude oil from Canada, up from 20% in the past, and this new capability is expected to deliver $1 billion of operating cash flow per year, depending on market conditions.
“The Whiting Refinery Modernisation Project is a game changer for Whiting, essentially moving it to process mostly heavy-sour Canadian crude. And it’s going to shift our competitive position dramatically,” says Nick Spencer, vice president of refining.
I have never seen a crane like the one in the bottom picture. It looks like the cabling and smaller booms are actually split into two cabling paths? Is that accurate?
Looks like a new plant being built inside the old one.
There are some excellent Mammoet videos on Youtube.
I have seen one of those cranes at the Flint Hills Pine Bend refinery in Minnesota. The parts are barged in on the Mississippi, then trucked (WIDE LOAD!) up the 300 foot bluffs to the refinery and assembled at the lay down yard. Typically used for the FCC, also for replacing the coker drums.
Quoth my wife when I showed the the pictures.
“It must be a guy thing.”
All that awesome technology mixed with brute force lifting...and I still don’t know how to pronounce “Mammoet”.
bfl
A pipefitters paradise!
A refinery is rather beautiful at night. (I am thinking of the Texaco refinery in Lockport.)America is what it is/was because of inexpensive energy from refining complexes like this.
There is never a time when it smells beautiful.
Wow, thank you!