Deep Conversion Project, Port Arthur, Texas

Services: Quantity Surveyor

Period: December 2008 - November 2009

Client: Total Petrochemical (USA) Inc

Project:

The Deep Conversion Project (DCP) was announced on February 12, 2008. The $2.2 billion project is scheduled for commissioning in 2011 and will log more than 7 million work hours upon completion.

Capacity

The project will build a 50,000 barrel-per-day coker, which will increase the facility’s deep-conversion capacity and expand its ability to process heavy and sour crude oil. It will add 3 million tons per year of ultra low sulfur automotive diesel to the refinery’s current production, raising total output of all products combined to around 12 millions tons per year.

The core project involves the construction of the following units:

• A Coker (deep conversion unit)
• A Vacuum Distillation Unit which prepares the coker feed
• Distillate Hydrotreater - DHT3
• Coker Naphtha Hydrotreater
• Hydrogen Purification - PSA
• Sulfur Recovery Unit
• In addition to the units, the power supply of the refinery will be modernized byconnecting the new entity to the 230kV network.

[Details courtesy of Total Petrochemicals Fact Sheet]

Pipe Rack 'Super' Modules

Services:

Responsible for setting up and maintaining recording and reporting systems on the progress of concrete work, steel work, pipe work and mechanical equipment setting.

The project anticipates pouring almost 85,000 cubic yards of concrete with circa 40,000 cubic yards being poured in the structures for the Coker.

Nearly 18,000 tons of structural steel are to be fabricated and erected.

Piping will see the fabrication and erection of almost 900,000 linear feet of pipe, from some 25,000 pipe isometrics, with respective elements of painting, steam tracing, perlite insulation, NDT and hydrostatic testing.

There are nearly 1,000 mechanical equipment items to be set.

Equipment Setting

Also responsible for carrying out audit of contractors proprietary progress measurement system (Mile Marker (tm)).