OMV Completes Refinery Turnaround

Plant Engineering OMV Completes Refinery Turnaround

2023-08-21 Source: Press release OMV Aktiengesellschaft 2 min Reading Time

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OMV has successfully completed the turnaround of its petrochemical unit at the OMV Schwechat Refinery in Austria. Inspection, repair work and around 500,000 bolts were replaced on the equipment in the petrochemical unit of the refinery.

The inspection has now been successfully completed and the OMV Schwechat Refinery is fully operational again. (Source: Алина Бузунова - stock.adobe.com) — The inspection has now been successfully completed and the OMV Schwechat Refinery is fully operational again.
(Source: Алина Бузунова - stock.adobe.com)

Schwechat/Austria – At the start of June 2023, the petrochemicals unit of the OMV Schwechat Refinery had been taken out of operation as scheduled for a regular inspection required by law every six years. The aim of this routine process – known as a Turnaround – is the thorough cleaning, inspection and maintenance of plant components as well as the modernization of the petrochemical unit and parts of the refining unit to be able to continue to guarantee their safe and sustainable operation. This inspection has now been successfully completed and the OMV Schwechat Refinery is fully operational again. The top priority was safety and the greatest possible consideration for local residents.

The units for fuel production were already inspected in 2022. Production in this area was almost at full capacity during this year’s petrochemicals turnaround. This year’s shutdown affected the areas used for the production of intermediate products for plastics production. This area includes the ethylene and butadiene plant and the catalytic cracker.

In addition to the 900 or so employees of the OMV Schwechat Refinery, around 4,000 employees from 50 partner companies were also involved in what amounted to around 1.2 million working hours.

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Inspection work was carried out on 18 process furnaces, 121 columns/reactors, 513 heat exchangers, 684 tanks, 3,000 fittings, and 1,800 safety valves, and various repairs were carried out at around 1,140 pipeline points. In total, around 500,000 bolts were replaced on the equipment in the petrochemical unit of the OMV Schwechat Refinery.

“Thanks to the strong support of all employees and partner companies as well as the comprehensive safety measures, the planned turnaround was completed successfully. With the groundwork laid for implementing our new facilities, we have taken another step towards a more sustainable refinery business and towards the transformation of OMV,” said Martijn van Koten, OMV Executive Vice President Fuels & Feedstock.

In addition to the maintenance and overhaul of the units, OMV also used this time to modernize the refinery in order to set the course for a more sustainable future with lower emissions. This meant that progress was made on numerous projects – such as the integration work for expanding the Reoil recycling plant and the electrolysis unit for producing green hydrogen. Extensive implementation work for co-processing (for biofuel production) is in progress and will be finalized soon.

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