COOEC-Fluor JV completes fabrication work for Al-Zour project

Fluor’s joint venture (JV) COOEC-Fluor Heavy Industries (COOEC-Fluor) fabrication yard in China has completed the pipe spool fabrication for the Al-Zour project in Kuwait.

Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC) is the owner of the Al-Zour project.

To achieve the completion of the fabrication work, COOEC-Fluor delivered more than 95,000 pipe spools by fabricating 337,000 linear meters of carbon, alloy, and stainless steel pipe.

The completed pipe spools were loaded out and arrived at the project location at the end of last month.

Fluor said that the team reported more than 3.5 million work hours without a lost-time incident.

COOEC-Fluor fabrication yard operations director and vice-president Chris Vertanness said: “The completion of the pipe spool fabrication package is a significant achievement for COOEC-Fluor.

“Not only does this milestone showcase the yard’s extensive pipe and steel fabrication capability in addition to modular assembly, but it also demonstrates our ability to safely deliver large-scale projects at an accelerated pace by shipping more than 15,500 spools per month at peak.”

The spools were delivered to a Fluor-led JV, which is currently in the process of delivering two engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction packages for key process units, utilities and associated infrastructure for the Al-Zour refinery project.

Once completed, the new complex is expected to be one of the world’s largest refineries capable of producing 615,000 barrels of oil per day.

COOEC-Fluor is also completing the fabrication and assembly of 188 modules. The final loadout and shipping of these modules to the project site is planned to take place this month.

Al-Zour is a 615,000b/d greenfield refinery consisting of five main packages.

In October 2015, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) selected JV team led by Fluor to build the $14bn Al Zour Refinery.