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Safety Management Group is working with Berkel & Company Contractors as their site safety representative on the OCC project at the BP Refining Whiting Business Unit.  Berkel is completing Auger Pressure Grouted (APG) Piling and Auger Pressure Grouted Displacement (APGD) Piling construction on the project.

Progress on the BP Whiting Refinery modernization project will accelerate during the last half of 2008 with the award of key contracts, the ordering of long lead time items and a major overhaul of a low pressure hydrotreater during a scheduled turnaround later in 2008. When complete in 2011, the project will increase Whiting gasoline production by 1.7 million gallons a day and equip the refinery to process increased amounts of secure Canadian crude oil.  About 400 skilled craftsmen are at work on the project. That will increase to 1,000 workers in early 2009 and reach 2000 before 2010. The project will include construction of a new coker, a new crude distillation unit, a new gas oil hydrotreater, new sulfur recovery facilities, modernization of the refinery’s water treating facilities and other environmental improvements.