The new refinery in the Port of Dos Bocas, Tabasco, will be one of the main projects to help to achieve Mexico’s energy independence. The refinery will be built on a 600 hectares plot of land, which has been freshly reclaimed.

Some 400 hectares of the reclamation needed compaction. For the shallow sand layers of up to 5 meters, Rapid Impact Compaction (RIC) was applied to compact the sand layers. Wicks’ 9 ton compaction hammers proved very efficient to meet the compaction requirements.

As the fast track project was under a very tight time schedule, the specialized compaction equipment was mobilized to the project in a short time. The compaction hammers worked around the clock to complete the works as per the stringent planning required by the customer.