Air Separation Unit - Opti-Nexen Long Lake

Air Liquide Process & Construction, Inc. (ALPC)

Description

Canonbie was contracted to build a Air Separation Unit (ASU) as part of the Gasification plant on the OPTI-Nexen Long Lake Site. The ASU will have an oxygen capacity of 3900 metric tons per day.

Canonbie's scope of work includes

• Civil (Piling/Concrete)
• Mechanical
• Structural (400,000 kg)
• Electric/Instrumentation
• Insulation
• Pipe Fabrication (88,000 inches off site)
• Module Assembly (21)

Highlights

• World's largest single Air Separation Plant
• World's largest Cold Box
• Two - 45,000 horsepower centrifugal compressors
• Extremely confined workspace
• Oxygen clean fabrication environment
• Man hours: 350,000 (IFB stage)
• Project Duration: Approx. two years

Owner: OPTI-Nexen
Location: Anzac (Ft. McMurray, AB)
Value: $52M
Total Man Hours: 350,000 (IFB Stage)
Completion: December 21, 2006