Shaw Fabrication Facility – Lake Charles, LA

Project Highlights

  • 1 Module (Cryogenic Cold Box)
  • Weights 500 tons
  • Shaw Scope – Material & equipment  management, structural steel engineering design, fabrication & assembly, paint, insulation, nitrogen purge design, fabrication & installation, pneumatic testing, E & I equipment management and installation, dimensional control, nitrogen shipping purge, methanol wash supports design and fabrication, and full NDE
  • 79,000 Mhr. Peak 60
  • Method of shipment –  Deck Barge from Lake Charles, LA to Port Arthur, TX
  • Schedule: Jan ’18 – May ’19

Other Facts

  • 300 tons of structural steel (CS & SS)
  • 2,700 LF of SS pipe
  • 10 Brazed Aluminum Heat Exchangers (BAHX)
  • 2 SS Separator Drums
  • 180 LF of cable tray
  • 3,000 LF of Thermocouple Wiring.
  • 12 Nitrogen Pneumatic-tests at -40 degree calcius (pressure from 127 to 1174 psi)
  • Cold Box stood-up and installed at refinery without a single misfit
  • Zero Lost Time Incidents