Under the contract, Technip will supply the reformers, which will become the heart of the hydrogen production facility, to produce 344,500 Nm3/h(2) of hydrogen and syngas products.
The company plans to use top-fired steam methane reforming technology to develop the reformers to supply high quality export steam to the refinery steam network.
Technip is scheduled to deliver the reformers in 2018 while the work will carried out at its office in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands.
In 2014, PRPC Refinery and Cracker, a subsidiary under Petronas group, has awarded engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) contract to Técnicas Reunidas for a refinery package in Rapid project.
The contract scope includes all the hydrotreating units, catalytic reforming unit, hydrogen production units, saturated gas plant, interconnection and flare for the refinery.
The Rapid project is part of the Petronas’s $27bn Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) development, which also includes the Pengerang co-generation plant (PCP), re-gasification terminal 2 (RGT2), air separation unit, raw water supply project (PAMER), crude and product tanks (SPV2) as well as central and shared utilities and facilities (UF).
PIC is part of Malaysia’s Economic Transformation Program (ETP) while aims to meet future energy requirement.
Technip also supported the front-end engineering design for the RAPID project, which comprises 300,000 barrels per stream day refinery and petrochemical complex with a combined capacity of producing 7.7 million tons per annum of various grades of products.
Technip Stone & Webster Process Technology president Stan Knez said: "We are delighted that our proprietary steam methane reforming technology has been selected for this Petronas RAPID site, which will be one of the largest hydrogen and syngas production facilities in the Asia Pacific region."
Image: Illustration of the re-gasification terminal in Johor, Malaysia. Photo: courtesy of Samsung C&T Corporation.
