Rebuilding at refinery
The sun will not sink on the Marsden Point oil refinery for the next six months at least. Enough floodlights have been installed round the refinery to effectively retain daylight, 24 hours a day, while the plant is improved. The imported floodlights alone cost $250,000, but this is only a tiny fraction of the total cost of the rebuilding. It is one of New Zealand’s biggest projects, involving about 600,000 man-hours. Weather and industrial relations permitting, a full year’s work will be compressed into 19 weeks. Each day the refinery remains shut will cost New
Zealand about $500,000 for imported fuel. Part of the rebuilding necessitates a two-week demolition spree which is now in full swing. This involves taking out 12km of piping and 200 major pieces of equipment from columns to pumps and heat exchangers. Most of this is destined for the scrap heap. The work team, also known as the A team, has reacheed its peak of almost 1300 workers, divided into three round-the-clock shifts of 400 men each. The rebuilt refinery should be recommissioned about mid-November.
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