S.C. IPIP S.A. the
Engineering
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and Design Institute for
Oil Refineries
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and Petrochemical Plants is a Romanian company which was established in 1950, at
Ploiești
Ploiești ( , , ), formerly spelled Ploești, is a city and county seat in Prahova County, Romania. Part of the historical region of Muntenia, it is located north of Bucharest.
The area of Ploiești is around , and it borders the Blejoi commun ...
, as a milestone in the development of the
petroleum
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,
hydrocarbon processing and
petrochemical industries
The petrochemical industry is concerned with the production and trade of petrochemicals. A major part is constituted by the plastics (polymer) industry. It directly interfaces with the petroleum industry, especially the downstream sector.
Compa ...
as well as of their related fields, in
Romania
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.
History
For almost 50 years, not only in
Romania
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but also in the southeast of Europe, IPIP SA was the only design institute for
refineries
A refinery is a production facility composed of a group of chemical engineering unit processes and unit operations refining certain materials or converting raw material into products of value.
Types of refineries
Different types of refineries ...
and
petrochemistry
Petrochemicals (sometimes abbreviated as petchems) are the chemical products obtained from petroleum by refining. Some chemical compounds made from petroleum are also obtained from other fossil fuels, such as coal or natural gas, or renewabl ...
.
Right away after its foundation, IPIP worked in the service of the Romanian refineries damaged during the second war, fully contributing to their restoring.
Later, in the '70s, within the general frame of development of the Romanian industry, IPIP was in charge of designing new
refineries
A refinery is a production facility composed of a group of chemical engineering unit processes and unit operations refining certain materials or converting raw material into products of value.
Types of refineries
Different types of refineries ...
of large capacity and high complexity, for the processing of the domestic and imported
crude oil.
The institute has performed the complete engineering and design for the achievement and implementation of the new Romanian refineries and for the revamping and extension of the existent ones. Thus, IPIP has fully designed the 11 oil refineries of Romania, totaling a processing capacity of about 40,000,000 Mt/y, and a great number of objectives abroad, spread worldwide and comprising, mainly,
oil refineries
An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into useful products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquef ...
,
lube oil
A lubricant (sometimes shortened to lube) is a substance that helps to reduce friction between surfaces in mutual contact, which ultimately reduces the heat generated when the surfaces move. It may also have the function of transmitting forces, t ...
/ gas processing complexes,
oil terminal
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and other associated facilities.
IPIP SA has been audited and approved by
Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance to the following Quality management System Standards:
ISO 9001:2000, EN ISO 9001:2000, SR EN ISO 9001:2001, for
Engineering
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, basic and detail design,
project management
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,
procurement
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, consultancy and technical assistance for oil refineries, gas processing and petrochemical plants,
pipelines
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Electronics, computers and computing
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** Instruction pipelining, a technique for implementing instruction-level parallelism within a s ...
and related facilities. Design for indoor electrical systems for civil and industrial buildings, for 0.4 kV underground and above-ground branches. Design for 0.4-20 kV above-ground electrical lines or underground cable tray routing, and transformer substations.
Fields of activity
*Refinery
*Petrochemical and Chemical
*Gas Processing / Treating
*Environmental
*Crude Oil / Product Storage
*Energy and Power
*Pipelines
*Chemical Equipment
*Offsite Facilities and Utilities Production Plants
*Industrial and Civil Constructions
Services
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*
Engineering
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*3D Design
*
EPCM
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Overview
Under an EPC co ...
IPIP offers today a full range of services from the conceptual phases through on-stream operation, post start-up assistance and training.
The activities of the Institute are focused on consulting services, conceptual, feasibility and viability studies, capital and operating cost estimates, project planning and management including
EPCM
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Overview
Under an EPC co ...
and
EPC EPC may refer to:
Government and politics
* Eastern Provincial Council, in Sri Lanka
* European Policy Centre, a Belgian think tank
* European Political Community (1952), a former political organization proposed in 1952
* European Political Co ...
project implementation, basic and detailed engineering for any related specialty,
procurement
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, pre-commissioning and
commissioning, start-up, current operation, field and shop inspection, preventive and routine maintenance, plant testing / analysis / optimization / revamping / retrofitting / expansion, general and on-the-job training, energy conservation, environmental protection systems, etc.
IPIP is focused on developing 3D design using
Intergraph
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PDS software.
IPIP is able to perform
Procurement
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and
Construction Management
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at professional standards.
Experiences
IPIP past experience during 5 years
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Along its history, IPIP has installed grassroots refineries as well as petrochemical and gas processing plants. The institute has engineered and put on stream more than 400 process units as well as a multitude of associated utilities, offsites and auxiliary facilities and have included also workshop drawings for refinery, petrochemical plant equipment and tank farms.
See also
* Petrotel Lukoil Refinery
Petrotel Lukoil Refinery is one of the largest Romanian oil refineries and one of the largest in Eastern Europe, located in Ploieşti, Prahova County. Its main activity is the processing of Romanian and Russian oil, but a separate unit is speci ...
* Petrobrazi Refinery
Petrobrazi Refinery is one of the largest Romanian refineries and one of the largest in Eastern Europe, located in Ploieşti, Prahova County having as a main activity the processing of Romanian oil but also has a separate unit specialised in pro ...
* Arpechim Refinery
Arpechim Refinery was one of the largest Romanian refineries and one of the largest in Europe, located in Pitești, Argeș County, and had both refining and petrochemical capacities. It was closed in 2011. The refinery has two processing modu ...
* Petromidia Refinery
Petromidia Refinery is the largest Romanian oil refinery and one of the largest in Eastern Europe, located in Năvodari, Constanța County. It has an annual processing capacity of 4.8 million tonnes/year or . The refinery is supplied with oi ...
* RAFO Onesti Refinery
* Rompetrol Refinery
* Indian Oil Corporation
Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL; d/b/a IndianOil) is a central public sector undertaking under the ownership of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. It is headquartered in New Delhi. It is a public sector und ...
** Guwahati Refinery
Guwahati Refinery was set up at Noonmati in Guwahati on 1 January 1962. Guwahati Refinery is the first Public Sector refinery of India and belongs to Indian Oil Corporation Limited. The refinery was inaugurated by Late Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, ...
** Barauni Refinery
Barauni Refinery is an oil refinery located in Begusarai city in the state of Bihar, operated by Indian Oil Corporation. It was the dream project of Shri krishna Sinha the first chief minister of Bihar. It was built in collaboration with the ...
** Haldia Refinery
Haldia Refinery is an oil refinery operated by Indian Oil Corporation, located in Haldia city in the state of West Bengal. This refinery has a capacity of 8 million tonnes per year. For processing 2.5 MMTPA of Middle East crude, two sectors wer ...
References
External links
Official site
Petroleum Club - Engineering Services For Cost Effective Investments
Top 100 Proiectanti
prahovabusiness.ro
ziarulprahova.ro
ziarulprahova.ro
Global Refining Summit 2011
* Bustul lui Carol Nicolae Debie
Alpiq takes over service provider for petrochemical industry in Eastern Europe
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