Overview

• Name: Jean Gaulin Refinery (Long-Term Partnership)
• Client: Valero Energie
• Contract value: 675 CA$ million
• Contract Type: Lump Sum
• Sector: Oil & Gas
• Timeline: Aug – 2003 – Sep – 2011
• Location: Lévis, Quebec

Description

A vital piece of North American and Quebec energy infrastructure is the Saint-Romuald (Lévis) Jean Gaulin Refinery. It is Canada’s second-largest refinery by production capacity, with a refining capacity of about 265,000 barrels per day. Its structure is ideal for handling key consumer goods like gas, diesel, jet fuel, propane, and heating oil as well as crude oil (acid, light, and shale crude).

Since 2003, the Valero Jean Gaulin Refinery has received benefits from the experience of Falex Construction for in-plant services, including engineering and administration of small, medium, and large projects.

Because of our extensive experience and knowledge of refinery technology, Falex Construction has been a significant partner in the majority of projects started at the Valero refinery. With the construction of a new 243-kilometer pipeline between the Jean-Gaulin refinery and the Montreal East terminal, Falex Construction significantly contributed to increasing the capacity and safety of the transportation of gasoline and distillate. Due to this, several shipments made by Freightliner and ships will no longer be made, resulting in a decrease in greenhouse gas emissions.

An effluent treatment plant and fire prevention system’s new light crude unit was designed and engineered with help from our team. Additionally, we worked on FEED, thorough engineering, risk assessment of exceeding battery limitations, and a new Merichem unit. Long-distance engineering was used by Falex Construction to help its partner in the design of the continuous naphtha reformate and gasoline desulfurization plant in Quebec City.

Planning and engineering support for Valero’s turnaround projects in 2003, 2008, and 2011 were provided by Falex Construction. When Valero decided to expand its plant in 2008, Falex Construction worked on feasibility studies, procurement, project management, and technical engineering for the new LPG separation unit and its effects on tank farms in order to support this ambition.