Honeywell bags contract to provide technology for new refinery in Iraq

Iraq’s State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP) under the Ministry of Oil announced that it has selected technology from UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, for a planned 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery in Nassiriya.  UOP LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., headquartered in Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.  Rajeev Gautam, president and CEO of UOP stated, “We are pleased to be working with the SCOP again as Iraq focuses on doubling its oil refinery capacity.  The high yields delivered by our technologies combined with our methodology for process unit integration and optimization will enable SCOP to produce the maximum yields of high quality gasoline and diesel product while also maximizing the economic value of the project.”  As part of the project, UOP is to provide the reforming, isomerization, fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) and selective hydrotreating technologies. (May 26, 2011)