(Crews Are Slowly Moving Dehexanizer For Delivery To Refinery)
(Photo by Jim Hennessy)
A huge and expensive piece of equipment has arrived in port for the Irving Oil Refinery.
It's called a Dehexinizer and is being off-loaded near the WallBoard Plant on Bayside Drive.
Officials are going to leave it near that property until after the rush hour drive home and then move it with a police escort to it's home at the Refinery this evening.
The unit was built in Korea at a cost of $99 million dollars and took two months to get here. It is 185 feet long, 16 feet in diameter and weighs over 200 metric tonnes.
It's main function is to reduce benzyne content in gasoline by 30% which meets U.S. regulations.
150 new jobs will be created to hook up the Dehexinizer which should go on-line by this time next year.
