Técnicas Reunidas (TR) has been selected by Total for the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of a new Solvent Deasphalting Unit and a Mild Hydrocracker Fractionation Unit and for the revamping and conversion of the existing Atmospheric Residue Desulphurizacion Unit at its Antwerp platform in Belgium. This contract was awarded under the EPC Lump Sum Turn Key model and it is worth around 300 million euros.

TR has a large experience in hydrocracking projects with more than 25 worldwide references and currently 3 units under construction.

This award reflects the trust Total shows in TR capabilities and the competitiveness of TR in the challenging west European refining market.

Currently TR is working for Total in Saudi Arabia (Jubail platform) and in France (Normandy platform).

About Total Refining & Chemicals
The Refining & Chemicals Division of Total, one of the largest integrated oil and gas companies in the world, encompasses the refining and petrochemicals activities, the specialty chemicals and the fertilizers, with more than 50,000 employees worldwide. The Refining & Chemicals Division is the first refiner and the second petrochemicals producer in Europe, includes 13 refineries, 21 petrochemicals production sites and more than 150 locations in specialty chemicals and fertilizers worldwide. The Refining & Chemicals Division produces and commercializes a wide range of product from petroleum products to commodity polymers including base chemicals intermediates.
Those products are used in many consumer and industrial markets.

About Técnicas Reunidas
TR is one of the leading international engineering and construction companies in oil and gas development, refining and petrochemical and power generation projects. Since 1959, TR has designed and built more than 1,000 industrial plants worldwide in more than 50 countries.

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