Air Products owns and operates the hydrogen and steam generating facility, reported to be the largest outsourced hydrogen production plant in Canada, and will serve its customers under long-term agreements.
The newly commercialized facility is the second to be constructed by Air Products to supply hydrogen to Petro-Canada’s refinery, as well as several additional customers in the Edmonton area.
An earlier facility was successfully placed onstream in June 2006. The two interconnected hydrogen facilities are part of Petro-Canada’s refinery conversion project that will allow the Edmonton refinery to run entirely on oil sands feedstock.
The project is scheduled for completion in 2008 and will process bitumen from the company’s oil sands holdings, along with other oil sands feedstock, into 135,000 barrels per day of refined products. The new hydrogen facility was built under the global alliance between Air Products and French engineering major Technip.
Alex Masetti, Air Products’s vice president for tonnage gases North America, said: We are pleased to expand our relationship with Petro-Canada in this important oil sands region. We will continue to invest to serve the growing industrial gas needs of upgraders, refiners and other industrial customers in Canada.
