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12.31.07

Wink Companies, LLC, partnered with Sunoco, Inc wins CICE Award

SuncoWink Companies, LLC and Sunoco, Incorporated were awarded a 2007 Construction Industry Construction Excellence (CICE) award by the Greater New Orleans Business Roundtable, for a project at the Girard Point Refinery in Philadelphia, PA. The CICE award recognizes projects for successful implementation of the standards and principles of the Construction Industry Institute (CII).

Sunoco recently completed a major revamp of the Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit, expanding the overall capacity of the FCCU from 73,500 to 85,000BPD. In addition to the feed rate increase, the unit upgrade included installation of flue gas treating technology and provided improvements in product purity, product recovery, and efficiency.

Under the management of Wink’s Sunoco Account Manager, Chuck J. Konechne, P.E., Wink Companies performed engineering and procurement services for a significant portion of the project, debottlenecking the FCC main fractionator and product recovery section.

The CICE was awarded on the basis of Wink’s performance in six (6) areas:

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The project embodied a number of key CII principles. Innovative Design Technology was the focus of Wink’s submittal: use of 3-D laser scanning to obtain and document site data; using scanned data to create a 3-D model; and weekly on-line project meetings, with “real-time” review of the model by Wink and Sunoco in remote locations.

Richard Feemster, Manager of Technology Applications at Wink, gave a presentation of the laser-scanning process from field scanning through creation of the model in AutoPlant®, and demonstrated review and revision of the model as it had occurred in the web-based project meetings.

Raymond Toto, Sunoco’s Venture Manager for the FCCU Expansion project; and Tim Ernst, the Project Manager, attended the GNOBR Awards Presentation on December 6 and accepted the CICE award on behalf of Sunoco. “The success of this technology on the FCCU Expansion project has led Sunoco to adopt laser scanning as our standard for refinery revamp projects,” said Ernst.

E-304A letter from Sunoco Project Manager, Bruce Luebbe

To the Wink Design Team:

Attached are photographs of E-304 being set in place today. Lift was perfect - fit was perfect. From the time the lift was started until it was set in place took no more than 1 1/2 hours.

Gerry [Wink Lead Piping Designer Gerry Douzart], note the clearance at the one lower platform – it was exactly what you said it would be.

Day by day, as we prove out the information that was obtained by laser scanning, we are all feeling really good about the quality of the design work.

CICE Award
GNOBR Chairman Ray Thompson presents CICE Award to (from left) Tim Ernst, Ray Toto, Sunoco; Michael Wink, Wink Chief Operating Officer


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