Tobruk Oil Refinery & Majid Oil Field, Libya

Fire Consultant Engineers

and waterspray cooling systems to cone roof and Client: Arabian Gulf Oil Company floating roof tanks.

Principle The project at the Tobruk refinery Sikelis International Limited Contractor: incorporated the top pourer foam system enhancement for 19 floating roof refined oil tanks with a diameter of 32.0m. The existing The Arabian Gulf Oil Company (AGOCO) is one semi-fixed protection was enhanced to of the largest oil companies in Libya controlling incorporate three foam stations each containing eight oil fields, two refineries and an oil terminal two AFFF foam concentrate bladder tanks and representing approximately 40% of the total Libyan balanced pressure foam proportioners. crude oil production.

The project at the Majid oil field Tobruk Oil Refinery which has been on stream incorporated waterspray cooling systems and since 1985 is sited on the mediteranian coast to the base injection foam protection to four crude oil East of Libya . The refinery has a capasity of 20,000 storage tanks each with a diameter of 24.0m. barrels per day of refined oil. Majid Oil Field is sited The new foam protection incorporated a single to the south of Benghazi in the South East of Libya. foam station containing two AFFF foam The oil field extracts saharian crude oil for transfer concentrate bladder tanks and in line high back to Tobruk. pressure foam generators.

Incendia Consulting carried out the design and Incendia Consulting was responsible for engineering to NFPA standards for the crude and the full design and engineering of the systems, refined oil tank fire fighting enhancement project. foam concentrate stations, fire main routes and The project involved the upgrade and enhancement confirmation of the equipment and piping of the existing semi-fixed foam protection systems selection through hydraulic analysis.