Refining
Westcon continues to support a wide range of refinery-related construction projects throughout the U.S. The refinery market has been a major part of Westcon’s portfolio of markets for more than 25 years providing comprehensive construction solutions for major refinery clients throughout the country. Westcon provides full construction solutions ranging from refinery expansions, process unit additions, unit upgrades, equipment replacements, and complete refinery turnarounds.
The services offered range from single disciplines of construction services to leading entire project efforts as the general contractor. Many of Westcon’s key project professionals have worked in the refinery industry for more than 20 years –many at various capacities as the owner-operator of the refinery. It is Westcon’s excellent safety culture and performance, as well as the vast experience in the industry, which allows Westcon to continue providing construction solutions to this challenging industry.
Westcon has traditionally offered full services to our key refinery clients. These include a continuous maintenance service, construction of capital projects (both minor and major), turnaround (TAR) planning, equipment repair, and TAR execution for complete turnaround services.
The capital project experience and expertise offered to the refinery market include the following:
- Crude unit distillation
- Catalytic crackers/fluid catalytic cracking units (FCCU)
- HF alkylation
- H2SO4 alkylation
- Hydrocrackers
- Delayed cokers
- Hydrotreaters
- Hydrogen plant additions
- Isomerization units
- Visbreakers/visbreaking
- Steam reformers
- Catalytic reformers
- Amine-treating units
- Benzene reduction projects
- Tailgas clean-up projects
- Sulfur-recovery units/sulfur plants
- Asphalt plants
- Boiler upgrades/boiler additions
- Cooling water/cooling tower projects
- Water treatment upgrades
- General utility projects