Honeywell International Incorporated has announced plans to build mobile refineries that can be deployed to volatile places in Nigeria and in regions across the world.

A refinery

Rajeev Gautam, President of Honeywell’s oil and gas service unit, who disclosed this, noted that the daily production capacity of the mobile refineries will be about 10 percent of a big refinery that would have to be built on location.

Bloomberg reported that assembling the equipment off-site may help energy companies solve the critical challenge of keeping large construction crews out of harm’s way while erecting infrastructure to tap oil fields in dangerous locales.

Gautam noted that, “There are certain geographies in Nigeria that are witnessing security challenges and the mobile refineries are going to make sense.

“But despite the security challenges in the country, Nigeria is a potential sales destination in the world.”

He however said the mobile refineries will be built in Iraq. “The first of these small portable units will be built in a factory sent by sea to Iraq, trucked inland and plunked down on a
prepared foundation.”

He maintained that, the assembling of the mobile refinery equipment off-site may help energy companies to solve the critical challenge they face protecting their workers from harm while erecting infrastructure in dangerous oil fields.

“The modular building of oil and gas equipment will help reduce cost overruns and construction time and it is also a way for Honeywell to boost sales of its energy technology.”

He added that the UOP already has experience building modular equipment for natural gas processing and is expanding that technology to crude oil refineries.