WORLD NEWS
June
2016
HYDROCARBON
ENGINEERING
5
Saudi Arabia |
Engineering services contract
J
acobs Engineering Group, Inc. has
received a two year contract
from Saudi Aramco Total Refining
and Petrochemical Company
(SATORP) to provide general
engineering services (GES) at
SATORP’s Jubail Industrial City II
facilities in Saudi Arabia.
Under the terms of the contract,
Jacobs is providing a range of
feasibility studies, concept design
and detailed engineering design
services for a portfolio of minor
capital expenditure projects.
The contract expands Jacob's
presence in the Jubail Industrial City,
and reinforces its commitment to
providing services to the company's
clients across the region. Jacob's
extensive experience in the provision
of similar services in Saudi Arabia
and its recently established local
presence in Al Jubail were key
factors in helping the company
secure the contract.
SATORP’s 400 000 bpd Jubail
refinery is one of the most advanced
refineries in the world, producing a
wide variety of white products from
heavy crude oil.
USA |
Ultra low sulfur
diesel project
A
llied Energy has selected DuPont™
IsoTherming® hydroprocessing
technology for its ultra low diesel
(ULSD) project at its Transmix
Processing Facility in Birmingham,
Alabama. Development of the
technology began in July 2015, with
project startup anticipated by
August 2016.
IsoTherming is suitable for a wide
range of applications, including
kerosene, diesel and FCC feed
hydrotreating, mild hydrocracking and
heavy oil upgrading for both
grassroots and revamp configurations,
among others. Licensed unit capacities
range from 1500 to 80 000 bpd,
processing feedstocks such as 100%
kerosene, 100% light cycle oil (LCO)
and various mixtures of distillates and
heavy gas oils, including coker blends.
Growing global demand for
transportation fuel continues to drive
refiners toward operations that
maximise hydroprocessing capacity
and capability either through unit
debottlenecks or new unit
construction. IsoTherming technology
offers the refiner lower capital and
operating costs while significantly
reducing sulfur content in motor fuels.
China |
Isobutylene process unit performance
H
oneywell has announced that
Shandong Luqing Petrochemical
Co., an independent integrated
refiner that produces gasoline,
liquefied petroleum gas and
methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE),
accepted the performance of
China’s first standalone Honeywell
UOP C
4
Oleflex
TM
process unit,
producing 170 000 tpy of
isobutylene. The unit, located in
Shandong Province on China’s East
Coast, will support the growing
demand for fuel and petrochemicals
in China’s industrial sector.
In addition to licensing,
Honeywell UOP provided the
engineering design, catalysts,
adsorbents, specialty equipment, staff
training and technical service for the
project. The C
4
Oleflex process uses
catalytic dehydrogenation to convert
isobutane to isobutylene, the primary
ingredient for making high octane fuel
and synthetic rubber used in tires,
healthcare supplies and other
consumer products.
The technology delivers superior
performance due to its reliability,
low energy usage, high isobutylene
yields, and a fully recyclable
platinum alumina-based catalyst
system using proven continuous
catalyst regeneration (CCR)
technology.
While Shandong Luqing is the
first Chinese operator of a
standalone Honeywell UOP C
4
Oleflex process, the technology now
has seven customers in the country
with three of them anticipated to
start up by the end of 2016.
Egypt |
Delayed coking technology
B
echtel has signed a license
agreement with Assiut Oil
Refining Company (ASORC), a
subsidiary of Egyptian General
Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), for
the process design of a delayed
coking unit at the Assiut refinery in
Egypt. The new delayed coking unit
will be part of the US$1.5 billion
refinery modernisation programme,
using Bechtel's proprietary
ThruPlus® coking technology to
upgrade heavy oil into high value,
light hydrocarbon liquids.
Investment in the Assiut refinery
will increase production of
petroleum products to meet
Upper Egypt's growing demands,
while maintaining important
environmental standards. The
addition of a modern delayed
coking unit was determined to be
the most economical option to
allow the refinery to increase
complexity and eliminate heavy fuel
oil product.
