Petrofac starts up largest CDU in Kuwait
Kuwait’s Clean Fuels Project has started up the country’s largest crude distillation unit (CDU) 111, at the Mina Abdullah refinery.
Petrofac is leading the joint venture of service companies working on the refinery, for Kuwait National Petroleum Co. (KNPC). Samsung Engineering Co. and McDermott International are working with Petrofac.
The CDU is the largest in Kuwait, Petrofac said. The facility has refining capacity of 264,000 barrels per day. The crude column is 75 metres long, 13 metres wide and weighs 900 tonnes.
The successful operation of the [CDU] is very much the gateway to this important project for Kuwait’s refining industry,” said Petrofac’s project director Prashant Bokil. The work had been achieved “despite the many recent operational challenges due to the pandemic. We are focused on the remaining work ahead, as we progressively continue the hand over and commission each unit safely to complete the refinery mega pr