The Azerbaijani state-owned oil and gas company SOCAR has selected the Spanish engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor Técnicas Reunidas for the modernization of the 6 Mt/year Heydar Aliyev oil refinery (HAOR) in Baku (Azerbaijan). This EPC contract is part of the modernization process that SOCAR is implementing in the facility to upgrade its capacity up to 7.5 Mt/year and to meet Euro 5 standards for all products. The modernisation project is expected to be completed within 38 months.
In March 2016, SOCAR awarded KBR a project management consultancy (PMC) Contract for the modernisation project. SOCAR also selected Amec Foster Wheeler in April 2016 to develop a number of facilities for diesel hydro-treatment, isomerisation, methyl tertiary-butyl ether, fluid catalytic cracking gasoline treatment, sour water stripper, amine treatment and sulphur recovery.