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downstream
Successfully working for TOTAL
The OPTARA Project LOT3A
at Antwerp Refinery
Interconnecting pipe-rack
In May 2013, the contract Roberto Radaelli and jet fuel production while decreasing
for the execution of the LOT3A Project Director, Wood (formerly Amec fuel oil and gasoline production. Revamp
and modifications of existing process and
Foster Wheeler)
at Total’s Antwerp refinery utilities units, significant adjustments of
interconnecting and off-sites facilities and
was awarded to Foster Wheeler otal is a leading energy com- erection of new fundamental process units
(now Wood), Milan office pany and its refinery located were required to achieve this target.
in Antwerp, Belgium, is its
The two existing atmospheric residue de-
largest European plant. sulphurisation trains (ARDS) were split into a
The main objective of the mild hydrocracker (MHC) and an ARDS unit,
T Total OPTARA Project was and a grass-roots new solvent de-asphal-
to increase the profitability of the Antwerp ting (SDA) unit was added to process va-
Refinery by enhancing its capability to pro- cuum residue to provide feed for the MHC.
cess vacuum residue, increasing diesel The vacuum gasoil and the atmospheric re-
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