Reactors for Garyville Refinery (USA)
The two hydrotreating reactors were manifactured for the plant, owned by Marathon Petroleum Corporation, the 3rd largest in America.
ATB Riva Calzoni had provided two hydrotreating reactors purchased last year by Jacobs Engineering, Houston, for the Garyville Refinery, located in southeastern Louisiana (United States).
This is the 3rd largest American Oil refinery. The plant is owned by Marathon Petroleum Corporation, located by the Mississippi River, between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, has a production capacity of 539.000 barrels per day, achieved with a progressive expansion. The two hydrotreating reactors have been shipped from Porto Marghera after less than fourteen months of manufacturing period.
The reactors have a thickness of 170 mm and a diameter of 5 meters, they have been fabricated at Roncadelle plant and completed in the workshop of Marghera. The first one weighs 310 tons, is 21 meters long and has an diameter of 5m; the second one is 26.5 meters long and weighs 460 tons.
ATB Riva Calzoni who had already supplied hydrocracking and hydrotreating reactors for unit upgrading in 2005 and in 2009.
