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WEg

Project team supplies

signifi cant contract

for Duqm refi nery in Oman

The contract encompasses both medium and
low voltage equipment, and in addition WEG will
establish an exclusive service centre close to the
project site to serve the refi nery

The vast refi nery is a green-
fi eld project being develo-
ped by Duqm Refi nery and
Petrochemical Industries, a
joint venture between Oman
Oil Company (OOC) and For high-pressure applications such as hydrocra-
Kuwait Petroleum Interna- cking, reciprocating compressors are used for ma-
tional (KPI). keup gas service. In these applications, synchro-
The refi nery occupies a nous motors provide higher effi ciency, power factor
900-hectare site located correction and lower inrush current and operate at a
600 km south of Muscat constant speed, making them an excellent choice.
on the west coast of Oman
along the Arabian Sea,
with a capacity to process
230,000 barrels of crude oil
per day.

WEG has been awarded the
contracts by the Enginee-
ring, Procurement and Con-
struction (EPC) partners,
Técnicas Reunidas (Spain)
and Daewoo Engineering
and Construction (South Korea), and will deliver all
the motors and variable speed drives (VSDs) for
the project.
The medium-voltage equipment includes 12 VSDs
and more than 120 electric motors, including four The second contract is related to the low- voltage
10,500kW 18-pole synchronous mo tors for the equipment and includes more than 1,300 electric
hydrogen makeup reciprocating compressors. Gas motors and nearly 200 VSDs.
compressors are used extensively in refi nery pro-
cess units to compress hydrogen. www.weg.net

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