MPC lets contract for North Dakota refinery conversion

Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC) has let a contract to WorleyParsons Ltd. to provide detailed engineering services for conversion of Marathon’s 19,000-b/d refinery in Dickinson, ND, into a renewable diesel refinery. 

Under the contract, Worley will provide engineering services as well as procure equipment and materials for the refinery conversion, the service provider said.

Worley—which provided engineering services during the project’s early concept phase—said it will execute its work under the contract out of its US offices with support from global locations.

A value of the contract, however, was not disclosed.

MPC plans to convert the existing Dickinson refinery into a 12,000-b/d, 100% renewable diesel refinery that will process refined soy oil and other organically derived feedstock by 2020, according to the operator’s website.