South Africa: PetroSA Prepares Refinery Shutdown

11 July, 2009 in South Africa

source: allAfrica
Business Day (Johannesburg)
Siseko Njobeni
9 July 2009

Johannesburg — GRINAKER LTA and Kentz have won the contract to execute national oil and gas company PetroSA’s refinery shutdown in October.

In a departure from past practices where it used to conduct its own shutdowns with the help of labour brokers, PetroSA has opted for engineering managing partners. This sees PetroSA keeping up with the industry trend of using such partners.

Sesakho Magadla, PetroSA shutdown manager, yesterday said the move would improve accountability as the companies could be appointed in terms of the construction regulation while labour brokers could not.

PetroSA yesterday said Grinaker LTA and Kentz would conduct the 37-day shutdown at its gas- to-liquids plant in Mossel Bay and the FA offshore gas platform, which is [continue reading]