Kazakhstan Today reported that Switzerland based ABB has won a sub contract to supply power equipments for the hydrocarbons production complex at Atyrau refinery in Kazakhstan.
According to Energy Business Review, the company won the USD 11 million contract from engineering, procurement and construction contractor OGCC KazStroy Service to supply high and medium voltage substation equipments."
Under the contract, ABB will supply 220 KV and 6 KV switchgear, circuit breakers, instrument transformers, disconnectors and power transformers and substation automation system as per the global IEC 61850 standards for open communication, monitoring and control.
Mr Giandomenico Rivetti head of ABB Power Products division High Voltage products business said that "ABB's power products will play an important role in supplying quality power, efficiently and reliably to this refinery. Kazakhstan state-owned oil and gas company KazMunayGas is constructing the new hydrocarbons production complex, as a part of its initiative to modernize the Atyrau Refinery which has a capacity of 100,000 barrels of crude oil per day."
He said that "First phase of the hydrocarbons complex project will focus on improving gasoline and diesel quality to Euro-4 standards while the Phase II will revolve around producing up to 133 tonnes of benzene and 496,000 tonnes paraxylene per year. The under construction hydrocarbons production building is expected to be commissioned in 2013."
