SABIC appoints RVA Group to oversee decommissioning, demolition and dismantling of 10 plants in England

20-Jul-17

SABIC has appointed specialist consultancy RVA Group to oversee the decommissioning, demolition and dismantling of 10 plants at its North Tees and Wilton sites, as per khl.com. Work is underway to clear a suite of redundant assets in the north east of England, in one of the United Kingdom’s largest projects of its kind. The multi-million pound programme is expected to be completed in 2020. The more immediate programme involves demolishing a jetty, which will begin at the end of this month and be cleared in eight weeks.

Continued decommissioning support is being provided for a tank farm complex and RVA is also finalising the contractor selection process for the demolition of two Aromatics plants, with a proposed mobilisation date of January 2018. Elsewhere in Wilton, the 48-week demolition of Sabic’s Olefins 5 furnaces and neighbouring Butadiene 2 facility is already in progress and expected to be completed by the spring of 2018 and the close of 2017 respectively. “With the two-year upgrade of our cracker plant now complete, this current multi-million pound clean-up signals the latest chapter in the creation of safe, efficient and state-of-the-art facilities that are fit for the future,” said site director (acting) Daren Smith. We’re talking a range of world-scale chemical plants made up of complex structures, surrounded by live plant, in a multi-user operational site."