PROJECTS

ROSE Unit

Navajo Refining
Artesia, NM

Lauren’s scope of work includes the design, procurement, and installation of a ROSE Unit utilizing KBR technology.  Detailed scope includes DCS programming, electrical, instrumentation and all piping.  Throughput capacity of the ROSE unit shall be 18,000 BSPD. During peak construction, Lauren will employ over 100 people at the site. The project, from start to mechanical completion, will last 23 months.

 


Froth Treatment Plant

CNRL
Fort McMurray, AB, CA

In August 2006, Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) contracted Lauren as the General Contractor to construct a Froth Treatment Plant at the Horizon Oil Sands Project in Ft. McMurray, Alberta, Canada.  Scope of Lauren’s work includes inclined plate separators, forth area, cyclone area, main pipe racks, Naphtha Recovery Unit and Vapor Recovery Unit, electrical substation, and dump pond area for the Froth Treatment Unit.  Lauren employs an average of 275 workers on-site. 

This project represents a small portion of the CNRL Horizon Oil Sands Project.  The entire CNRL project (valued at $7.5 Billion) is focused on developing the available bitumen reserves that are recognized in the oil sands by installing facilities to mine the oil sands, extract the bitumen, and upgrade the bitumen to generate synthetic crude oil to be sold as a product. 


Install Gas-Oil Hydrotreater Unit

Navajo Refining
Artesia, NM

Lauren Engineers & Constructors was responsible for all detail engineering design and construction of a gas-oil hydrotreater unit that had been relocated from Lawrenceville, Illinois and transported to the Navajo site in Artesia, New Mexico. Engineering scope included all foundation/ civil design, piping drawings & isometrics, pipe stress analysis, pipe rack design, process valve sizing, relief valve sizing, underground duct banks and grounding.


Relocation of Hydrotreater Unit

Valero Energy Corporation
Alma, Michigan

Lauren was responsible for the dismantling and shipping of a Light Cycle Oil Hydrotreater Unit from Alma, Michigan to Denver, Colorado.


Relocation of Diesel Hydrotreater Unit

Navajo Refining
Lovington Facility - Artesia, New Mexico

This project involved the dismantling, transporting, and reinstallation of the HDU unit located at Navajo Refining. The unit was refurbished and reinstalled with process enhancements in Navajo's Lovington facility.


Relocation of Hydrotreater Unit

Navajo Refining
Lawrenceville, Illinois


The scope of this project included the dismantling of a low sulfur diesel hydrotreater unit in Lawrenceville, Illinois and transporting it to Navajo Refinery's facility in Artesia, New Mexico. Loads transported included two special railroad units at 325 tons, and 74 semi-trailer loads weighing a total of 1,350 tons.


Major Refinery Expansion and Upgrade

El Paso Refinery
El Paso, Texas

Lauren Engineers & Constructors provided electrical and instrumentation construction services for this project. The work included new primary power distribution, DCS system, additions of coker, sulfur recovery, FCCU upgrade, crude/vacuum, kerosene merox, and butane isomerization units.


 

 

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