Manifah, Saudi Arabia / Industry and Energy
Construction of towers at the Manifah refinery
Assembly of free-standing flare towers during refinery construction. Sequential lifting of components and tensioning of guy wires.
Project Execution
Work performed directly
on-site.
Saudi Arabia – The construction of a new refinery in Manifah included free-standing flare towers (used for burning off excess gas). Each tower consisted of three sections, with each section measuring approximately 20 meters. Every individual section had to be tensioned and aligned before the next section could be installed.
Tensioning was performed using steel cables anchored at three points. Each cable had to be tensioned to a precise, specified load, with the tower’s deviation allowed only within a tolerance of 0–10 mm. The maximum tension applied to a single cable is 24 tons.
