Nitriles Facility

About This Project

The Nitriles facility located at Green Lake, Port Lavaca, Texas, produces acrylonitrile and acetonitrile, chemicals used in the production of acrylic and carbon fibers and the pharmaceutical industries.

Bay Ltd. completed the fabrication and erection of the 4th Reactor Train utilizing major equipment that was dismantled and transported from the Sterling Chemicals plant in Texas City. The Bay work scope included refurbishment of some of the used equipment with specialty items such as heat exchangers and compressors being sent out to vendors as well as fitness for service inspection of used large bore process pipe and structural steel. Also included were the civil works, structural steel erection, piping fabrication and erection, electrical and instrumentation and painting and scaffold services.  The total completion took 21 months and 885,000 hours of direct labor were expended.