Replacing cracking furnaces at a lower olefins factory

Shell Moerdijk wanted to modernise their Lower Olefins plant, one of the largest in Europe, to significantly reduce its energy consumption and carbon emissions. For their “Project Skyline”, they required a service provider to replace 16 of the site’s end-of-life cracking furnaces with 8 new ones, while ensuring the plant’s continued operations and performance.

SPIE’s reliability, commitment to a long-term partnership, wealth of resources and high standards of both performance and safety made it the partner of choice for Shell. Notably, SPIE’s engineers made up the project’s dedicated “Bouwteam” (building team), providing a flexible, effective and cost-efficient organisation for the client. The 8 state-of-the-art furnaces cut the plant’s CO2 emissions by 10%, equivalent to fifty thousand cars, reducing emissions in the Netherlands by at least 1%.