
CCCC Third Harbour Engineering Assisted by Sarens in Hong Kong
Innovative Solution for Ballast Challenge
IDESA commissioned Sarens to perform lifting and installation operation at the GALP Energia’s Sines refinery in Portugal.
With a distilling capacity of 10.9 million tonnes a year, or 220,000 barrels a day, the Sines refinery is one of the largest in Europe. The Sines refinery began operating in 1978. Covering an area of 320 hectares, the Sines refinery has a storage capacity of 3 million m³, of which 1.5 million m³ is crude oil, and the remainder includes final and intermediate products such as gas, gasoline, diesel, and so on. The refinery comprises of 34 processing units.
There was a limited room for installing our equipment and was very challenging to bring them inside the refinery. The time schedule was tight as always and the client asked for a crawler crane of a minimum 1000T capacity.
Our team studied the job location, space constraints, safety concerns, and client’s requirement. The team deployed:
CC6800 SWSL
2×6 SPMTs
3x60T Strand jacks
The equipment was transported from the Headquarters by ship followed by trucks in approximately two weeks and was rigged in ten days. It was a challenging task to get the equipment inside the refinery.
The crew replaced the new reactor pieces in the generator and installed a cat cooler. The parts weighed upto 105T and 100m in dimension. They were lifted at a maximum radius of 25.3m. There was a limited time available for lifting during and outage of the refinery. A total number of nine picks were executed at site to complete the operation.
Source Sarens
Innovative Solution for Ballast Challenge
First-of-its-kind engineering solution developed and deployed by Sarens UK