Honeywell to provide safety system for Kuwaiti refinery

Honeywell has been selected by Kuwait National Petroleum Company to provide an integrated control and safety system for its new 615,000 barrel-a-day Al Zour refinery complex.

The company will also provide front-end engineering design for the system, it said in a release.

This would be Kuwait's fourth and the largest refinery in the entire Middle East. It is expected to be operationalised in 2018.

Honeywell said it has provided leading technologies to KNPC's refineries for about 30 years through its process solutions (HPS) business.

"As the main automation contractor for the new Al Zour refinery, it will supply Experion PKS as the main control system for the refinery complex, as well as integrate all process automation systems throughout the site," it added.

"We are pleased to have been selected for this important project," said Honeywell's general manager (Kuwait), James King.

The new refinery complex will help in meeting domestic demand and export of ultra-low sulfur products such as fuel oil, diesel and kerosene, as well as petrochemical feed stocks, the release stated.