Turnaround 2024 Rompetrol Romania

Activity Type: General Contractor / Major Turnaround

Sector: Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals

Client: KMG - Rompetrol

Country: Romania – Petromidia

Period: 2024

The Industrial Montaj teams successfully took on the challenge of executing the 2024 Major Turnaround (45 Days) for the following three units:

  • Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC)
  • Mild Hydrocracking (MHC) – Steam Cracker
  • Middle Distillate Hydrotreating (HDV)

Scope of Work:

  • Unit handover assistance
  • Disassembly and reassembly of 250 valves & safety relief valves
  • Execution of 151 piping repair projects (151 welding points)
  • Piping discovery works: 128 interventions
  • Metallurgical repairs on equipment (113 interventions), including the replacement of a shell section on a column
  • Post-weld heat treatment (PWHT)
  • Pressure testing for 490 pipelines registered with local authorities
  • Pressure testing for equipment
  • Assistance for start-up
  • Installation of two new reactors
  • On-site machining and grinding

Material Grades Handled:

16Mo3, Gr. P11, P22, P5, 304L, 304H, 310, 316L, 321, 347, 410, Alloy 800H

Key Project Highlights:

  • 100% digitalized turnaround management using our QR code-based activity tracking system

Special Works:

  • Replacement of a shell section on a column, including the removal of the column head for installation of the new shell section
  • Replacement of the expansion joint between the Regenerator & the Plenum Chamber on the FCC unit

Key Equipment Figures:

  • Columns: 16 units
  • Heat Exchangers: 83 units
  • Reactors: 6 units
  • Damper: 61 units
  • Furnaces: 5 units
  • Aerators: 70 units
  • Over 6,000 inches of welding completed during the turnaround
  • Replacement of a shell section on a column