Project consists of the supervision of maintenance, repair, remediation, interconnections and connection of new sections of the pipeline. Maintenance of valve manifolds, storage tanks, pump yards for transfer and pumping. Planning and control, quality management, integrity management, permit management and depth surveying.

Copec operates a facility for receiving, storing, and dispensing clean products (diesel, kerosene, and gasoline). The new TPI Bunkers residual products terminal was built on the same site; its purpose is to sell fuels (fuel oil, IFO, and diesel) to barges that supply ships in the area.

The project primarily involved a pipeline to receive fuel oil or IFO from ENAP Quintero, fuel oil/IFO and diesel storage tanks, dispensing pumps, an in-line blending system, an underwater line for fuel oil/IFO delivery, an underwater line for diesel delivery, a fire protection system in the tank area, and interconnections to TPI for filling the diesel tank.

COPEC planned to build the Caracol plant for the treatment of used lubricating oils for the conversion of residual oils into fuel oil additives. This plant was built adjacent to the Imported Products Terminal and the Lubricants Plant.

The project involved transfering four tanks from the designated area to the new alkylation unit at the Aconcagua Refinery.

The project included engineering designs for the overhead structure used to lift the tanks, the structure to support the tanks on the truck, the concrete supports for the hydraulic jacks, the lifting anchors on the tanks, verifying the behavior of the tanks during the lifting and transport operations, and proposing solutions for detaching the tanks from the foundation. In addition, the project included the adaptation and improvement of the internal roads for transport, as well as the management of overhead power lines.

The project consisted of the detailed engineering design of a semi-refrigerated LPG storage terminal, consisting of a sphere of 10,000 m3, 2,000mts. of 12″ pipeline (800 meters underground and 1,200 meters underwater), 200,000 Kcal refrigeration system, island and truck loading pumps, fire protection system, flame and gas detection and auxiliary equipment (air compressor, backup generator, SSEE) as well as piping, valves and instruments.

In addition, PA Engineering services included project management, planning, supervision, inspection (mechanical and electro-instrumental ITO), quality assurance, procurement of equipment and materials, in conjunction with the client, document control and planning and control of the progress of the different subcontracts corresponding to the project.

The project considered an investment of US$ 27.5 million, which was completed to the satisfaction of the client in cost and time

The project consisted of the recovery of CO2 carbon dioxide from an outlet gas stream (Tail gas), rich in CO2, hydrogen H2 and methane CH4, which was generated at the CHT Hydrogen Plant of ENAP Bío Bío Refinery. This current was returned to the reforming furnaces of the plant to be used as fuel, where the CO2 contained was released into the environment because of combustion.

PA Engineering participated in developing the Environmental Impact Statement in 2005, when this project began with the signing of an agreement between INDURA and ENAP Refineries, with the aim of reducing CO2 emissions in said refinery and thus accessing the issuance of Carbon Credits, tradable in the market to companies that are obliged to emit fewer Greenhouse Gases.  generating both economic and environmental benefits. 

PA Engineering performed basic and detail engineering in different disciplnes in 2007. The project considered the installation of a CO2 recovery plant from the Tail gas stream, which was composed of the necessary equipment to efficiently extract CO2 from said stream, for subsequent purification and liquefaction, with an approximate production of 3,600 tons/month.

In turn, Indura managed to reduce the use of fossil fuel (natural gas and propane) previously used to produce the CO2 it produces.

This project became the first plant to capture and produce CO2, based on a methodology developed by both companies approved by the Executive Board of the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

COPEC has a plant for the reception, storage and dispatch of clean products (diesel, kerosene, gasoline). The project involved the construction of a new 10,000 m3 diesel storage tank.

COPEC has a base and blending reception plant to produce lubricating oils in Quintero, so the objective of this project was to expand the plant’s storage capacity, through the installation and interconnection of three new tanks of 1,000 m3 each.

With the aim of facilitating and speeding up the loading and unloading of gas, through the mechanized handling of cylinder pallets for the Maipú Plant in Abastible, PA Engineering developed the engineering, in several disciplines, for the complete palletization of the production process of the Plant, which involved the installation of LPG cylinder palletizing equipment in the production lines of packaging of 5, 11 and 15Kg.

The project was carried out in two stages, given the need to clear certain areas before carrying out the project. The first phase corresponded to the construction of 5 double loading islands, the expansion of the pump room, transfer of equipment and new canopy structures for the islands, access gate to the plant and truck parking lots, with rainwater management.

The second stage corresponded to the assembly of the new projected palletizing equipment, the incorporation of leveling and new rainwater systems of the maneuvering yard, construction of pits and relocation of existing networks.