Project Profile

BP Sour Water Handling Upgrade Project
Blaine, WA

The project will increase the refinery’s sour water handling capacity by over 25%. This will be accomplished by installing a new flash drum, re-traying a non-phenolic stripper column, and installing new heat exchangers, pumps, and an H2S absorber.

Within the construction phase, JH Kelly’s portion of the field work will be executed over a one-year period. The current construction schedule sets mechanical completion for mid-October 2010.

As the general mechanical contractor for the project, JH Kelly has been assigned as the lead for all trade contractors: providing constructability input through the detailed engineering phase; coordinating the field work of the other trade contractors; and developing and maintaining the overall project schedule.

Construction phase highlights:
1. No recordable injuries.
2. Planned, scheduled and executed a two-week, double-shift unit outage to re-tray a stripper column, and install new piping and exchangers. All work was successfully completed ahead of schedule.
3. Set a 110,000 pound, 14’ diameter x 45’ long drum within a new steel structure, coordinating and working directly with both the heavy lift and heavy haul contractors.

• Excavation—2,900 CY
• Concrete—550 CY
• Steel—150 TN
• Equipment Install—1 flash drum; 1 H2S absorber; 3 exchangers; 1 air cooler; 6 pumps; 1 oxygen tank
• Pipe (Install)—7,500 LF
• Pipe (Field Fab.)—900 LF
• Pipe (Demo)—1,500 LF
• Instrument (Install)—100 EA