KUWAIT CITY, Nov. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell
(NYSE: HON) today announced that Kuwait Integrated Petroleum
Industries Company (KIPIC) has selected Honeywell Process
Solutions (HPS) to be the main automation contractor for its new
Petrochemicals and Refinery Integration Al Zour Project
(PRIZe). Under the agreement, HPS will provide KIPIC with
front-end engineering design and advanced process control
technology for the complex, which will help KIPIC expedite
production start-up and assist with reaching production targets
faster and more efficiently.
The PRIZe project will become the first integrated refining and
petrochemicals complex in Kuwait.
The new facility – developed as part of the Al-Zour Complex – will
significantly enhance Kuwait's
domestic petrochemicals, aromatics and gasoline manufacturing
capabilities.
"The PRIZe project will revolutionize Kuwait's domestic production capabilities,
helping KIPIC meet the increasing demand for fuels and
petrochemical products within the country," said Hatem Al-Awadi, acting chief executive officer,
KIPIC. "With Honeywell's support, we are building a strategic
project that will transform Kuwait's domestic oil and gas market, and
provide a significant accelerator for the country's long-term
economic development by improving gasoline and benzene supply to
the local and international markets."
Honeywell UOP also was awarded a contract with
KIPIC earlier this year for modernization of the Al Zour
complex. Honeywell UOP will revise the configuration and capacity
of the refinery's gasoline production facilities and supply
technology licenses, design services, key equipment, and
state-of-the-art catalysts and adsorbents to produce clean-burning
fuels, paraxylene, propylene, and other petrochemicals.
Honeywell has been in Kuwait
for more than 50 years. Honeywell supports Kuwait's energy industries through
cutting-edge technologies, efficient business solutions, local
training, research and development initiatives. Honeywell is the
first company to build "Made in Kuwait" solutions to power digital
transformation across the country's growing oil, gas and
petrochemical sectors. The company also operates the Honeywell
Automation College in Mina Abdullah,
which delivers global training capabilities locally through more
than 300 courses specifically designed to address the requirements
of Kuwait's power and water, oil
and gas and automation industries.
"Honeywell has a long history of successfully delivering
world-class automation solutions to the oil downstream industries
in Kuwait, and this new agreement
highlights the trust our customers have in our technologies," said
Rachad Abdallah, president for
Honeywell in Kuwait. "At the
integrated refining and petrochemicals complex at Al-Zour, we are
leveraging our experience and technologies to help develop one of
the most ambitious initiatives in the region. This project will
help transform Kuwait into a
pioneering manufacturer in the downstream oil and gas
industry."
KIPIC is a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) set
up by the State of Kuwait to
manage refinery, petrochemicals and LNG import operations at the
Al-Zour complex.
For more information visit Honeywell Process Solutions.
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