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ENGINEERING
Refinery turnaround planning
and execution
during pandemic emergency
Final plants turnaround Fabio Fontanella, a final Plants Turnaround in the first half of
Senior Project Manager, Wood
2020.
successfully delivered The investment plan extension required
great effort towards safety, delivering on
etween 2014 and 2020, time, and remaining consistent on the
in the first half of 2020 Saras implemented an in- overall project activities due to the involve-
vestment plan focused on ment of several engineering and construc-
rationalising the steam and tion companies.
electric power consumption The days preceding the start of the refinery
Bat its Sarlux refinery located turnaround COVID-19 broke.
at Sarroch, Italy. The scale of disruption forced Sarlux to
Global engineering and consultancy com- evaluate potential new scenarios and take
pany, Wood, has been supporting Sarlux quick decisive action in maintaining the
for more than 20 years. date for the units’ shutdown and the refi-
The rationalisation plan included revam- nery turnaround as originally planned.
ping and maintenance activities for several The new emergency circumstances re-
process and utilities units and ended with quired a deep reassessment of the turna-
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